Organizations

Ingests AWS Organizations account structure and organizational units for governance monitoring and compliance.

Details

The AWS Organizations input collects comprehensive information about your AWS Organizations structure. It provides insights into your multi-account setup, organizational units (OUs), account relationships, and hierarchical organization to help you monitor and analyze your AWS account governance. The input retrieves detailed information about accounts and organizational structure, including account metadata, OU relationships, and organizational policies for complete visibility into your AWS account management.

Requirements

• AWS Organizations must be enabled in your AWS management account.
• IAM Role Assumption / Static Credentials
• Example permission to attach to the role/user:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Configuration

Settings

Setting	Type	Required	Default	Description
Role ARN	string	Yes	-	The ARN of the role to assume to access the Organizations
Cron	string	Yes	-	Cron expression for scheduling the input
Region	array	Yes	-	Filter the certificate list by region
Parent ID	string	No	-	The unique identifier of the parent entity to list children for.

Secrets (Static Credentials Only)

Setting	Type	Required	Description
Access Key	string	Conditional	AWS Access Key ID
Secret Key	string	Conditional	AWS Secret Access Key

⚠️ Authentication: Choose either Role ARN (recommended) or static credentials. See AWS Authentication Guide for setup instructions.

Related Articles

• AWS Organizations Documentation
• AWS List Children API
• AWS List Accounts API
• AWS Describe Account API

Sample Record

{
  "Arn": "arn:aws:organizations::399130087386:account/o-o-un18pmdx70/863701095906",
  "Email": "Jane Smith@example.com",
  "Id": "962420112987",
  "JoinedMethod": "INVITED",
  "JoinedTimestamp": "2025-08-11T23:46:55.228795Z",
  "Name": "Security Account",
  "Status": "PENDING_CLOSURE"
}