AWS accounts

• https://aws.amazon.com/account/

Commands

• aws organizations list-accounts
• aws organizations create-account
• aws organizations describe-account
• aws organizations move-account

• aws iam list-account-aliases
• aws iam create-account-alias

• AWS master account. You cannot change which one is you master account once selected. https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/organizations/faqs/

Related

• AWS member account/Linked account, AWS standalone account, AWS master account
• AWS IAM Identity Center
• AWS access portal
• Terraform resource: aws_organizations_account
• Organization Units (OU)
• AWS Service Control Policy (SCP)
• AWS Landing Zone (Jun 2018)
• aws-nuke to remove all resources from an AWS account.
• Management account
• AWS Control Tower
• AWS Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation
• AWS Billing and Cost Management console
• AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
• AWS accounts alias

Activities

• Read https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/faqs/
• Read https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io/docs/features/work-with-multiple-aws-accounts/
• Undertand predefined default OrganizationAccountAccessRole role

News

• 03/2022 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/aws-organizations-central-account-closure-lifecycle-management/

See also

• AWS accounts, alias: aws organizations [ describe-account | move-account | list-accounts | create-account | close-account | account-id | attach-policy ], AWS IAM Dashboard
• AWS Organizations: aws organizations ( describe-account | list-roots | list-accounts | list-delegated-administrators | create-account | describe-organizations | enable-all-features | enable-aws-service-access )
• AWS, AWS Management & Governance, AWS Organizations, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Control Tower, AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), AWS Service Catalog, AWS Landing Zone, AWS SSO

https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/organizations/faqs/