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account

This component is responsible for creating or importing a single AWS Account within an AWS Organization.

Unlike the monolithic account component which manages the entire organization hierarchy, this component follows the single-resource pattern - it only manages a single AWS account.

note

This component should be deployed from the management/root account as it creates accounts within AWS Organizations.

Key Features

Single-resource pattern: Manages exactly one AWS account per component instance
Conditional import blocks (OpenTofu/Terraform 1.7+): Easily import existing accounts into Terraform state
Independent lifecycle: Each account can be managed independently without affecting others
Simple configuration: Minimal variables required for account creation

Usage

Stack Level: Global (deployed in the management/root account)

This component creates or imports a single AWS account. For managing the entire organization hierarchy, see the companion components: aws-organization, aws-organizational-unit, aws-account-settings, and aws-scp.

Basic Usage

components:
  terraform:
    aws-account/core-analytics:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
      vars:
        name: core-analytics
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: "ou-xxxx-xxxxxxxx"

Using Remote State for Parent ID

Reference the parent OU dynamically using Atmos remote state:

components:
  terraform:
    aws-account/core-analytics:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
      vars:
        name: core-analytics
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: !terraform.output aws-organizational-unit/core organizational_unit_id

Importing an Existing Account

To import an existing AWS account into Terraform state:

components:
  terraform:
    aws-account/core-analytics:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
      vars:
        name: core-analytics
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: "ou-xxxx-xxxxxxxx"
        import_account_id: "123456789012"

After the import succeeds, you can remove the import_account_id variable.

Using Catalog Defaults

Create a defaults file for consistent configuration:

# stacks/catalog/aws-account/defaults.yaml
components:
  terraform:
    aws-account/defaults:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
        type: abstract
      vars:
        enabled: true
        iam_user_access_to_billing: DENY
        close_on_deletion: false

Then inherit from defaults:

# stacks/orgs/myorg/core/root/global-region.yaml
import:
  - catalog/aws-account/defaults

components:
  terraform:
    aws-account/core-analytics:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
        inherits:
          - aws-account/defaults
      vars:
        name: core-analytics
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: !terraform.output aws-organizational-unit/core organizational_unit_id

Complete Example with Multiple Accounts

components:
  terraform:
    # Core OU Accounts
    aws-account/core-analytics:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
        inherits:
          - aws-account/defaults
      vars:
        name: core-analytics
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: !terraform.output aws-organizational-unit/core organizational_unit_id
        import_account_id: "111111111111"

    aws-account/core-security:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
        inherits:
          - aws-account/defaults
      vars:
        name: core-security
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: !terraform.output aws-organizational-unit/core organizational_unit_id
        import_account_id: "222222222222"

    # Platform OU Accounts
    aws-account/plat-dev:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
        inherits:
          - aws-account/defaults
      vars:
        name: plat-dev
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: !terraform.output aws-organizational-unit/plat organizational_unit_id
        import_account_id: "333333333333"

    aws-account/plat-prod:
      metadata:
        component: aws-account
        inherits:
          - aws-account/defaults
      vars:
        name: plat-prod
        account_email: "[email protected]"
        parent_id: !terraform.output aws-organizational-unit/plat organizational_unit_id
        import_account_id: "444444444444"

This component is part of a suite of single-resource components for AWS Organizations:

Component	Purpose
`aws-organization`	Creates/imports the AWS Organization
`aws-organizational-unit`	Creates/imports a single Organizational Unit
`aws-account`	Creates/imports a single AWS Account (this component)
`aws-account-settings`	Configures account settings (IAM alias, S3 block, EBS encryption)
`aws-scp`	Creates/imports Service Control Policies

Variables

Required Variables

account_email (string) required: The email address for the AWS account
parent_id (string) required: The ID of the parent Organizational Unit or organization root
region (string) required: AWS Region

Optional Variables

close_on_deletion (bool) optional

Whether to close the account on deletion

Default value: false

iam_user_access_to_billing (string) optional

Whether IAM users can access billing. ALLOW or DENY

Default value: "DENY"

import_account_id (string) optional

The AWS account ID to import. Set this to import an existing account into Terraform state.

Default value: null

role_name (string) optional

The name of the IAM role that Organizations creates in the new member account

Default value: null

Context Variables

The following variables are defined in the context.tf file of this module and part of the terraform-null-label pattern.

additional_tag_map (map(string)) optional

Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.

Required: No

Default value: { }

attributes (list(string)) optional

ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.

Required: No

Default value: [ ]

context (any) optional

Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.

Required: No

Default value:

{
  "additional_tag_map": {},
  "attributes": [],
  "delimiter": null,
  "descriptor_formats": {},
  "enabled": true,
  "environment": null,
  "id_length_limit": null,
  "label_key_case": null,
  "label_order": [],
  "label_value_case": null,
  "labels_as_tags": [
    "unset"
  ],
  "name": null,
  "namespace": null,
  "regex_replace_chars": null,
  "stage": null,
  "tags": {},
  "tenant": null
}

delimiter (string) optional

Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.

Required: No

Default value: null

descriptor_formats (any) optional

Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
\{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/> \}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).

Required: No

Default value: { }

enabled (bool) optional

Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources
Required: No

Default value: null

environment (string) optional

ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT'
Required: No

Default value: null

id_length_limit (number) optional

Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.

Required: No

Default value: null

label_key_case (string) optional

Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.

Required: No

Default value: null

label_order (list(string)) optional

The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.

Required: No

Default value: null

label_value_case (string) optional

Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.

Required: No

Default value: null

labels_as_tags (set(string)) optional

Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.

Required: No

Default value:

[
  "default"
]

name (string) optional

ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.

Required: No

Default value: null

namespace (string) optional

ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique
Required: No

Default value: null

regex_replace_chars (string) optional

Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.

Required: No

Default value: null

stage (string) optional

ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release'
Required: No

Default value: null

tags (map(string)) optional

Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.

Required: No

Default value: { }

tenant (string) optional

ID element (Rarely used, not included by default). A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for
Required: No

Default value: null

Outputs

account_arn: The ARN of the AWS account
account_email: The email of the AWS account
account_id: The ID of the AWS account
account_name: The name of the AWS account
parent_id: The parent ID of the account

Dependencies

Requirements

terraform, version: >= 1.7.0
aws, version: >= 4.9.0, < 6.0.0

Providers

aws, version: >= 4.9.0, < 6.0.0

Modules

Name	Version	Source	Description
`this`	0.25.0	`cloudposse/label/null`	n/a

Resources

The following resources are used by this module:

aws_organizations_account.this (resource)

Data Sources

The following data sources are used by this module:

Key Features​

Usage​

Basic Usage​

Using Remote State for Parent ID​

Importing an Existing Account​

Using Catalog Defaults​

Complete Example with Multiple Accounts​

Related Components​

Variables​

Required Variables​

Optional Variables​

Context Variables​

Outputs​

Dependencies​

Requirements​

Providers​

Modules​

Resources​

Data Sources​

Key Features

Usage

Basic Usage

Using Remote State for Parent ID

Importing an Existing Account

Using Catalog Defaults

Complete Example with Multiple Accounts

Related Components

Variables

Required Variables

Optional Variables

Context Variables

Outputs

Dependencies

Requirements

Providers

Modules

Resources

Data Sources