organizations:DescribeAccount

Read

organizations:DescribeAccount is a Read access-level action in the organizations service. Grants permission to retrieve Organizations-related details about the specified account

Resource types

ARNs that organizations:DescribeAccount can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:account/o-${OrganizationId}/${AccountId}
account

Condition keys

Keys you can use in the Condition block of a policy that grants organizations:DescribeAccount.

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by the tags associated with the resource

Example IAM policy

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

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

Related actions in organizations

organizations:AcceptHandshake Write organizations:AttachPolicy Write organizations:CancelHandshake Write organizations:CloseAccount Write organizations:CreateAccount Write organizations:CreateGovCloudAccount Write organizations:CreateOrganization Write organizations:CreateOrganizationalUnit Write organizations:CreatePolicy Write organizations:DeclineHandshake Write organizations:DeleteOrganization Write organizations:DeleteOrganizationalUnit Write

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