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Author: Mitch Nolan
Mitch Nolan is a senior technical account manager based in Colorado. He specializes in the AWS Security and AWS Resilience technical domains. Outside of work, Mitch enjoys pursuing his passion for cycling and endurance sports.
Automate cross-partition AWS GovCloud (US) account bootstrapping
In the post Automate AWS GovCloud (US) account creation using AWS Organizations APIs, we showed how to programmatically create GovCloud (US) accounts using AWS Organizations APIs. That post ends at account creation—the new accounts exist but the standard account remains in the organization root while the GovCloud (US) account remains a standalone account. You must manually complete the steps to join a GovCloud (US) organization and move accounts to the correct organizational units (OUs).