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Getting Organization Information

Function

This API is used to get the information about the organization holding the account. It can be called by all accounts in an organization.

Debugging

You can debug this API through automatic authentication in API Explorer or use the SDK sample code generated by API Explorer.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependencies

    organizations:organizations:get

    Read

    -

    -

    -

    -

URI

GET /v1/organizations

Request Parameters

Table 1 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Security-Token

No

String

Definition

Security token (session token) of your temporary security credentials. If a temporary security credential is used, this header is required.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 0 to 32,768 characters.

Default Value

No default value

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 2 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

organization

OrganizationDto object

Definition

Organization details.

Constraints

Mandatory

Range

N/A

Default Value

No default value

Table 3 OrganizationDto

Parameter

Type

Description

id

String

Definition

Unique ID of an organization.

Constraints

Mandatory

Range

The value must comply with the regular expression ^o-[0-9a-z]{10,32}$.

The value contains a maximum of 34 characters.

Default Value

No default value

urn

String

Definition

Uniform resource name of the organization.

Constraints

Mandatory

Range

The value contains 1 to 1,500 characters.

Default Value

No default value

management_account_id

String

Definition

Unique ID of the organization's management account.

Constraints

Mandatory

Range

The value must comply with the regular expression ^[\w-]+$.

The value contains a maximum of 64 characters.

Default Value

No default value

management_account_name

String

Definition

Name of the organization's management account.

Constraints

Mandatory

Range

The value must comply with the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$.

The value contains a maximum of 64 characters.

Default Value

No default value

created_at

String

Definition

Time when the organization was created.

Constraints

Mandatory

Range

The value must be in ISO 8601 format.

Default Value

No default value

Example Requests

Getting Organization Information

GET https://{endpoint}/v1/organizations

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Successful

{
  "organization" : {
    "id" : "o-fhkmi6mek7wlqdp6nideqhb47qwtjdsv",
    "urn" : "organizations::0a6d25d23900d45c0faac010e0fb4de0:organization:o-fhkmi6mek7wlqdp6nideqhb47qwtjdsv",
    "management_account_id" : "0a6d25d23900d45c0faac010e0fb4de0",
    "management_account_name" : "paas_iam_573331",
    "created_at" : "2022-08-24T06:31:46Z"
  }
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Successful

Error Codes

See Error Codes.