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Retrieves information about the organization that the user's account belongs to.

This operation can be called from any account in the organization.

Even if a policy type is shown as available in the organization, you can disable it separately at the root level with DisablePolicyType. Use ListRoots to see the status of policy types for a specified root.

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

Headers

X-Amz-Target'AWSOrganizationsV20161128.DescribeOrganization' required

Response

Success

Example response

{
  "Organization": {
    "Arn": "arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:organization/o-exampleorgid",
    "AvailablePolicyTypes": [
      {
        "Status": "ENABLED",
        "Type": "SERVICE_CONTROL_POLICY"
      }
    ],
    "FeatureSet": "ALL",
    "Id": "o-exampleorgid",
    "MasterAccountArn": "arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:account/o-exampleorgid/111111111111",
    "MasterAccountEmail": "bill@example.com"
  }
}