Find AWS Account Id using CLI or Boto3

2023-02-11 · Thomas Taylor

How to find the AWS Account ID using the AWS CLI or Boto3?

AWS CLI

Retrieve your full identity

1aws sts get-caller-identity

1{
2    "UserId": "AIDA...",
3    "Account": "123456789012",
4    "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/user"
5}

Use native AWS CLI --query option for querying the output.

1aws sts get-caller-identity --query "Account" --output text

1123456789012

1import boto3
2
3sts = boto3.client("sts")
4account_id = sts.get_caller_identity()["Account"]
5print(account_id) # 0123456789012