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Retrieves Organizations-related information about the specified account.

This operation can be called only from the organization's management account or by a member account that is a delegated administrator for an Amazon Web Services service.

post/#X-Amz-Target=AWSOrganizationsV20161128.DescribeAccount

Headers

X-Amz-Target'AWSOrganizationsV20161128.DescribeAccount' required

Request body

AccountIdstring required
<p>The unique identifier (ID) of the Amazon Web Services account that you want information about. You can get the ID from the <a>ListAccounts</a> or <a>ListAccountsForParent</a> operations.</p> <p>The <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a> for an account ID string requires exactly 12 digits.</p>

Response

Success

Example response

{
  "Account": {
    "Arn": "arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:account/o-exampleorgid/555555555555",
    "Email": "anika@example.com",
    "Id": "555555555555",
    "Name": "Beta Account"
  }
}