AWS Account

Retrieves information about the specified account including its account name, account ID, and account creation date and time. To use this API, an IAM user or role must have the account:GetAccountInformation IAM permission.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

client.get_account_information(
    AccountId='string'
)

type AccountId:

string

param AccountId:

Specifies the 12 digit account ID number of the Amazon Web Services account that you want to access or modify with this operation.

If you do not specify this parameter, it defaults to the Amazon Web Services account of the identity used to call the operation.

To use this parameter, the caller must be an identity in the organization's management account or a delegated administrator account, and the specified account ID must be a member account in the same organization. The organization must have all features enabled, and the organization must have trusted access enabled for the Account Management service, and optionally a delegated admin account assigned.

To call this operation on an account that is not a member of an organization, then don't specify this parameter, and call the operation using an identity belonging to the account whose contacts you wish to retrieve or modify.

rtype:

dict

returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'AccountCreatedDate': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
    'AccountId': 'string',
    'AccountName': 'string'
}

Response Structure

• (dict) --

  • AccountCreatedDate (datetime) --

    The date and time the account was created.

  • AccountId (string) --

    Specifies the 12-digit account ID number of the Amazon Web Services account that you want to access or modify with this operation. To use this parameter, the caller must be an identity in the organization's management account or a delegated administrator account. The specified account ID must be a member account in the same organization. The organization must have all features enabled, and the organization must have trusted access enabled for the Account Management service, and optionally a delegated admin account assigned.

    This operation can only be called from the management account or the delegated administrator account of an organization for a member account.

  • AccountName (string) --

    The name of the account.

Updates the account name of the specified account. To use this API, IAM principals must have the account:PutAccountName IAM permission.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

client.put_account_name(
    AccountId='string',
    AccountName='string'
)

type AccountId:

string

param AccountId:

Specifies the 12 digit account ID number of the Amazon Web Services account that you want to access or modify with this operation.

If you do not specify this parameter, it defaults to the Amazon Web Services account of the identity used to call the operation.

To use this parameter, the caller must be an identity in the organization's management account or a delegated administrator account, and the specified account ID must be a member account in the same organization. The organization must have all features enabled, and the organization must have trusted access enabled for the Account Management service, and optionally a delegated admin account assigned.

To call this operation on an account that is not a member of an organization, then don't specify this parameter, and call the operation using an identity belonging to the account whose contacts you wish to retrieve or modify.

type AccountName:

string

param AccountName:

[REQUIRED]

The name of the account.

returns:

None