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Viewing details of an organization from the management account

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Viewing details of an organization from the management account - AWS Organizations

When you sign in to the organization's management account in the AWS Organizations console, you can view details of the organization.

Minimum permissions

To view the details of an organization, you must have the following permission:

  • organizations:DescribeOrganization

AWS Management Console
To view the details for your organization
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. Navigate to the Settings page. This page displays details about the organization, including the organization ID and the account name and email address assigned to the organization's management account.

AWS CLI & AWS SDKs
To view the details for your organization

You can use one of the following commands to view details of an organization:

  • AWS CLI: describe-organization

    The following example shows the information included in the output of this command.

    $ aws organizations describe-organization { "Organization": { "Id": "o-aa111bb222", "Arn": "arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:organization/o-aa111bb222", "FeatureSet": "ALL", "MasterAccountArn": "arn:aws:organizations::128716708097:account/o-aa111bb222/123456789012", "MasterAccountId": "123456789012", "MasterAccountEmail": "admin@example.com", "AvailablePolicyTypes": [ ...DEPRECATED - DO NOT USE... ] } }
    Important

    The AvailablePolicyTypes field is deprecated and doesn't contain accurate information about the policies enabled in your organization. To see the accurate and complete list of policy types that are actually enabled for the organization, use the ListRoots command, as described in the AWS CLI portion of the following section.

  • AWS SDKs: DescribeOrganization

To view the details for your organization
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. Navigate to the Settings page. This page displays details about the organization, including the organization ID and the account name and email address assigned to the organization's management account.

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