organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit

Read

organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit is a Read access-level action in the organizations service. Grants permission to retrieve details about an organizational unit (OU)

Resource types

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

arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:ou/o-${OrganizationId}/ou-${OrganizationalUnitId}
organizationalunit

Condition keys

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

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by the tags associated with the resource

Example IAM policy

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

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowOrganizationsDescribeOrganizationalUnit",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
      "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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