AWS Security Cookbook

Creating an account and OU from the CLI

Follow these steps from the AWS CLI:

1. We can create an AWS account from the CLI using the create-account subcommand, like so:

aws organizations create-account \--email [e-mail] \--account-name awsseccookbookchild1 \--profile awssecadmin

This should give us the following response:

2. We can check the status of our request using the describe-create-account-status subcommand by providing the request ID we received in the previous step:

aws organizations describe-create-account-status \--create-account-request-id car-bb6f15308b7311e98b7112a0c7517226 \--profile awssecadmin

If the request ...