organizations:ListChildren

List

organizations:ListChildren is a List access-level action in the organizations service. Grants permission to list all of the OUs or accounts that are contained in a parent OU or root

Resource types

ARNs that organizations:ListChildren 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:ListChildren.

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by the tags associated with the resource

Example IAM policy

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

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

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