Creating an Organization

Function

This API is used to create an organization. The account whose user is calling this API automatically becomes the management account of the new organization. This API must be called using the credentials from the account that is to become the new organization's management account.

Debugging

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

URI

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

Request Parameters

**Table 1** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Security-Token	No	String	Security token (session token) of your temporary security credentials. If a temporary security credential is used, this header is required.

Response Parameters

Status code: 201

**Table 2** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
organization	OrganizationDto object	A structure that contains details about an organization. The accounts are organized hierarchically under organizational units (OUs) in the organization and their access permissions are controlled by policies.

**Table 3** OrganizationDto
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Unique ID of an organization.
urn	String	Uniform resource name of the organization.
management_account_id	String	Unique ID of the organization's management account.
management_account_name	String	Name of the organization's management account.
created_at	String	Time when the organization was created.

Example Requests

Creating an organization

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

Example Responses

Status code: 201

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"
  }
}