organizations:ListAccountsForParent

List

organizations:ListAccountsForParent is a List access-level action in the organizations service. Grants permission to list the accounts in an organization that are contained by a root or organizational unit (OU)

Resource types

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

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

Condition keys

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

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by the tags associated with the resource

Example IAM policy

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

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

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