Creating multiple sub accounts in IAM AWS

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user3086014 picture user3086014 · Mar 21, 2014 · Viewed 25k times · Source

I have a parent IAM account and I have multiple clients. I want to have multiple child account in AWS. I dont want the child account to see the resources in parent account and other child account.

How can I implement this?

Thanks

Answer

chris picture chris · Mar 21, 2014

You can create multiple AWS accounts, and link them. You will have to do this with the master account root credentials, not an IAM account.

Full details are here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/about/consolidatedbilling.html

Update, Q1 2017:

AWS has introduced Organizations, which lets you create a new account linked to your payer account. Organizazions is also supported by the AWS CLI, so you can create new accounts programmatically, whithout needing the root credentials.

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