OrganizationalUnit - AWS Organizations

OrganizationalUnit

Contains details about an organizational unit (OU). An OU is a container of AWS accounts within a root of an organization. Policies that are attached to an OU apply to all accounts contained in that OU and in any child OUs.

Contents

Arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of this OU.

For more information about ARNs in Organizations, see ARN Formats Supported by Organizations in the AWS Service Authorization Reference.

Type: String

Pattern: ^arn:aws:organizations::\d{12}:ou\/o-[a-z0-9]{10,32}\/ou-[0-9a-z]{4,32}-[0-9a-z]{8,32}

Required: No

Id

The unique identifier (ID) associated with this OU. The ID is unique to the organization only.

The regex pattern for an organizational unit ID string requires "ou-" followed by from 4 to 32 lowercase letters or digits (the ID of the root that contains the OU). This string is followed by a second "-" dash and from 8 to 32 additional lowercase letters or digits.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 68.

Pattern: ^ou-[0-9a-z]{4,32}-[a-z0-9]{8,32}$

Required: No

Name

The friendly name of this OU.

The regex pattern that is used to validate this parameter is a string of any of the characters in the ASCII character range.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\s\S]*

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: