Moving an Account

Function

This API is used to move an account from its current source location (root or OU) to the specified destination location (root or OU).

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:accounts:move

Write

account *

g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

-

-

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
organizations:accounts:move	Write	account *	g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>	-	-

URI

POST /v1/organizations/accounts/{account_id}/move

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
account_id	Yes	String	Definition Unique ID of an 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

Request Parameters

**Table 2** 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

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
source_parent_id	Yes	String	Definition Unique ID of the root or OU which you want to move the account from. Constraints Mandatory Range The value must comply with the regular expression ^(?:r-[0-9a-z]{4,32}\|ou-[0-9a-z]{8,32})$. The value contains a maximum of 100 characters. Default Value None
destination_parent_id	Yes	String	Definition Unique ID of the root or OU which you want to move the account to. Constraints Mandatory Range The value must comply with the regular expression ^(?:r-[0-9a-z]{4,32}\|ou-[0-9a-z]{8,32})$. The value contains a maximum of 100 characters. Default Value None

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Successful.

None

Example Requests

Moving an account

POST https://{endpoint}/v1/organizations/accounts/{account_id}/move

{
  "source_parent_id" : "r-upg5m6wbw042",
  "destination_parent_id" : "ou-a6bjn4hat8o2txs5wduj19unte80"
}