Organizations code examples for the SDK for Python

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to work with AWS Organizations.

Organizations consolidates multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

⚠ Important

• Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account. For more details, see AWS Pricing and Free Tier.
• Running the tests might result in charges to your AWS account.
• We recommend that you grant your code least privilege. At most, grant only the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant least privilege.
• This code is not tested in every AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Regional Services.

Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the python folder.

Install the packages required by these examples by running the following in a virtual environment:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

• AttachPolicy
• CreatePolicy
• DeletePolicy
• DescribePolicy
• DetachPolicy
• ListPolicies

Run the examples

Instructions

Run this example at a command prompt with the following command.

python organizations_policies.py [--target TARGET]

The example optionally attaches and detaches the demo policy to an AWS Organizations resource, such as a root organization or account. If you want to include this in the demo, replace TARGET in the command with the ID of the resource.

Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the python folder.

Additional resources

• Organizations User Guide
• Organizations API Reference
• SDK for Python Organizations reference

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