organizations:CreateOrganization

Write

organizations:CreateOrganization is a Write access-level action in the organizations service. Grants permission to create an organization. The account with the credentials that calls the CreateOrganization operation automatically becomes the management account of the new organization

Resource types

This action does not support resource-level permissions; use "Resource": "*" in your policy.

Condition keys

No condition keys are documented for this action.

Dependent actions

To use organizations:CreateOrganization you may also need to grant:

Example IAM policy

A minimal policy that allows organizations:CreateOrganization. Replace "Resource": "*" with a specific ARN to follow least privilege.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowOrganizationsCreateOrganization",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "organizations:CreateOrganization",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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