Borislav Hadzhiev
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To get your account id using AWS CLI, run the sts get-caller-identity
command, setting the --query
parameter to Account
to filter the output.
aws sts get-caller-identity --query "Account" --output text
The get-caller-identity command returns the User Id, Account Id, and the ARN of the caller (User or role).
--query
parameter to filter by the Account
property to only return the account id.We also set the --output
parameter to text
to remove the double quotes
around the account number. By default, the output
is set to JSON
.
You can also redirect the output from the command to a file on the local file system:
aws sts get-caller-identity --query "Account" --output text > account-id.txt
To get your account Id using the AWS console, you have to click on your username in the navigation bar.