AWS::Organizations::OrganizationalUnit

Organizations OrganizationalUnit

You can use organizational units (OUs) to group accounts together to administer as a single unit. This greatly simplifies the management of your accounts. For example, you can attach a policy-based control to an OU, and all accounts within the OU automatically inherit the policy. You can create multiple OUs within a single organization, and you can create OUs within other OUs. Each OU can contain multiple accounts, and you can move accounts from one OU to another. However, OU names must be un...

Properties

3 configurable properties. 2 required. Click a row to see details.

Filter:

Property	Type	Flags
`Name`	`string`	Required
`ParentId`	`string`	RequiredCreate-only
`Tags`	`Array<Tag>`

Return Values

Values returned after the resource is created. Access these with Fn::GetAtt.

Attribute	Type	Description
`Arn`	`string`	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of this OU.
`Id`	`string`	The unique identifier (ID) associated with this OU.

Sample CloudFormation Template

A minimal template with required properties and common optional ones.

template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: Sample template for AWS::Organizations::OrganizationalUnit

Resources:
  MyResource:
    Type: AWS::Organizations::OrganizationalUnit
    Properties:
      Name: "my-name"
      ParentId: "my-parentid"
      Tags:
        - Key: Environment
          Value: Production

Required IAM Permissions

Permissions CloudFormation needs in your IAM role to manage this resource.

create

organizations:CreateOrganizationalUnitorganizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnitorganizations:ListParentsorganizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParentorganizations:ListTagsForResourceorganizations:TagResource

read

organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnitorganizations:ListParentsorganizations:ListTagsForResource

update

organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnitorganizations:ListParentsorganizations:ListTagsForResourceorganizations:TagResourceorganizations:UntagResourceorganizations:UpdateOrganizationalUnit

delete

organizations:DeleteOrganizationalUnit

list

organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent

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Quick Facts

ServiceOrganizations

Properties5

Required2

TaggingSupported

Primary IDId

Supported Operations

CreateReadUpdateDeleteList

Immutable After Creation

These properties cannot be changed after the resource is created. Updating them triggers a replacement.

ParentId

Related Resources

External Links

AWS Documentation