[ aws . organizations ]

create-account

Description

Creates an AWS account that is automatically a member of the organization whose credentials made the request. This is an asynchronous request that AWS performs in the background. Because CreateAccount operates asynchronously, it can return a successful completion message even though account initialization might still be in progress. You might need to wait a few minutes before you can successfully access the account. To check the status of the request, do one of the following:

• Use the OperationId response element from this operation to provide as a parameter to the DescribeCreateAccountStatus operation.

• Check the AWS CloudTrail log for the CreateAccountResult event. For information on using AWS CloudTrail with AWS Organizations, see Monitoring the Activity in Your Organization in the AWS Organizations User Guide.

The user who calls the API to create an account must have the organizations:CreateAccount permission. If you enabled all features in the organization, AWS Organizations creates the required service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForOrganizations . For more information, see AWS Organizations and Service-Linked Roles in the AWS Organizations User Guide .

AWS Organizations preconfigures the new member account with a role (named OrganizationAccountAccessRole by default) that grants users in the master account administrator permissions in the new member account. Principals in the master account can assume the role. AWS Organizations clones the company name and address information for the new account from the organization’s master account.

This operation can be called only from the organization’s master account.

For more information about creating accounts, see Creating an AWS Account in Your Organization in the AWS Organizations User Guide.

Warning

• When you create an account in an organization using the AWS Organizations console, API, or CLI commands, the information required for the account to operate as a standalone account, such as a payment method and signing the end user license agreement (EULA) is not automatically collected. If you must remove an account from your organization later, you can do so only after you provide the missing information. Follow the steps at To leave an organization as a member account in the AWS Organizations User Guide .

• If you get an exception that indicates that you exceeded your account limits for the organization, contact AWS Support .

• If you get an exception that indicates that the operation failed because your organization is still initializing, wait one hour and then try again. If the error persists, contact AWS Support .

• Using CreateAccount to create multiple temporary accounts isn’t recommended. You can only close an account from the Billing and Cost Management Console, and you must be signed in as the root user. For information on the requirements and process for closing an account, see Closing an AWS Account in the AWS Organizations User Guide .

Note

When you create a member account with this operation, you can choose whether to create the account with the IAM User and Role Access to Billing Information switch enabled. If you enable it, IAM users and roles that have appropriate permissions can view billing information for the account. If you disable it, only the account root user can access billing information. For information about how to disable this switch for an account, see Granting Access to Your Billing Information and Tools .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  create-account
--email <value>
--account-name <value>
[--role-name <value>]
[--iam-user-access-to-billing <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options

--email (string)

The email address of the owner to assign to the new member account. This email address must not already be associated with another AWS account. You must use a valid email address to complete account creation. You can’t access the root user of the account or remove an account that was created with an invalid email address.

--account-name (string)

The friendly name of the member account.

--role-name (string)

(Optional)

The name of an IAM role that AWS Organizations automatically preconfigures in the new member account. This role trusts the master account, allowing users in the master account to assume the role, as permitted by the master account administrator. The role has administrator permissions in the new member account.

If you don’t specify this parameter, the role name defaults to OrganizationAccountAccessRole .

For more information about how to use this role to access the member account, see the following links:

• Accessing and Administering the Member Accounts in Your Organization in the AWS Organizations User Guide

• Steps 2 and 3 in Tutorial: Delegate Access Across AWS Accounts Using IAM Roles in the IAM User Guide

The regex pattern that is used to validate this parameter. The pattern can include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits with no spaces, and any of the following characters: =,.@-

--iam-user-access-to-billing (string)

If set to ALLOW , the new account enables IAM users to access account billing information if they have the required permissions. If set to DENY , only the root user of the new account can access account billing information. For more information, see Activating Access to the Billing and Cost Management Console in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide .

If you don’t specify this parameter, the value defaults to ALLOW , and IAM users and roles with the required permissions can access billing information for the new account.

Possible values:

• ALLOW

• DENY

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To create a member account that is automatically part of the organization

The following example shows how to create a member account in an organization. The member account is configured with the name Production Account and the email address of susan@example.com. Organizations automatically creates an IAM role using the default name of OrganizationAccountAccessRole because the roleName parameter is not specified. Also, the setting that allows IAM users or roles with sufficient permissions to access account billing data is set to the default value of ALLOW because the IamUserAccessToBilling parameter is not specified. Organizations automatically sends Susan a “Welcome to AWS” email:

aws organizations create-account --email susan@example.com --account-name "Production Account"

The output includes a request object that shows that the status is now IN_PROGRESS:

{
        "CreateAccountStatus": {
                "State": "IN_PROGRESS",
                "Id": "car-examplecreateaccountrequestid111"
        }
}

You can later query the current status of the request by providing the Id response value to the describe-create-account-status command as the value for the create-account-request-id parameter.

For more information, see Creating an AWS Account in Your Organization in the AWS Organizations Users Guide.

Output

CreateAccountStatus -> (structure)

A structure that contains details about the request to create an account. This response structure might not be fully populated when you first receive it because account creation is an asynchronous process. You can pass the returned CreateAccountStatus ID as a parameter to DescribeCreateAccountStatus to get status about the progress of the request at later times. You can also check the AWS CloudTrail log for the CreateAccountResult event. For more information, see Monitoring the Activity in Your Organization in the AWS Organizations User Guide .

Id -> (string)

The unique identifier (ID) that references this request. You get this value from the response of the initial CreateAccount request to create the account.

The regex pattern for a create account request ID string requires “car-” followed by from 8 to 32 lower-case letters or digits.

AccountName -> (string)

The account name given to the account when it was created.

State -> (string)

The status of the request.

RequestedTimestamp -> (timestamp)

The date and time that the request was made for the account creation.

CompletedTimestamp -> (timestamp)

The date and time that the account was created and the request completed.

AccountId -> (string)

If the account was created successfully, the unique identifier (ID) of the new account.

The regex pattern for an account ID string requires exactly 12 digits.

GovCloudAccountId -> (string)

If the account was created successfully, the unique identifier (ID) of the new account in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

FailureReason -> (string)

If the request failed, a description of the reason for the failure.

• ACCOUNT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: The account could not be created because you have reached the limit on the number of accounts in your organization.

• EMAIL_ALREADY_EXISTS: The account could not be created because another AWS account with that email address already exists.

• GOVCLOUD_ACCOUNT_ALREADY_EXISTS: The account in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region could not be created because this Region already includes an account with that email address.

• INVALID_ADDRESS: The account could not be created because the address you provided is not valid.

• INVALID_EMAIL: The account could not be created because the email address you provided is not valid.

• INTERNAL_FAILURE: The account could not be created because of an internal failure. Try again later. If the problem persists, contact Customer Support.