Listing AWS Accounts in an AWS Organization

using aws-cli with a human-oriented output format

If you keep creating AWS accounts for every project, as I do, then you will build up a large inventory of accounts. Occasionally, you might want to get a list of all of the accounts for easy review.

The following simple aws-cli command pipeline:

  • filters to just the active (non-deleted) AWS accounts
  • sorts by account create/join time

and outputs the following values in nicely aligned columns:

  • AWS account id
  • account email address
  • account name

Here’s the command pipeline (contains some bash-ism):

aws organizations list-accounts \
  --output text \
  --query 'Accounts[?Status==`ACTIVE`][Status,JoinedTimestamp,Id,Email,Name]' |
  sort |
  cut -f2- |
  column -t -n -e -s$'\cI'

Here is a sample of what the output might look like:

317126648177 org+signin@example.com Organization (signin) 096053157110 org+development@example.com Organization (development) 309325603118 org+qa@example.com Organization (qa) 516635816478 org+production@example.com Organization (production) 161369730993 org+project-1@example.com Organization (project-1) 631228168624 org+project-2@example.com Organization (project-2) 132185502569 org+temporary@example.com Organization (temporary) 852417106807 org+fooling-around@example.com Organization (fooling-around) 758815767242 org+cloudtrail@example.com Organization (cloudtrail) 979811858263 org+backups@example.com Organization (backups) 402216494176 another@example.com Completely Different Thing 258311671274 org+preview@example.com Organization (preview) 107177144177 org+beta@example.com Organization (beta) 402216494176 org+alexa@example.com Organization (alexa)

Here’s an article where I describe how I use AWS Organizations to create and set up new AWS accounts with the aws-cli:

Creating AWS Accounts From The Command Line With AWS Organizations

[Update 20178-02-06: Switch from grep to JMESPath filter operator, thanks to reminder from Mike Fiedler]