How to Get your Account ID with AWS CLI
Borislav Hadzhiev
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# Get your Account ID using AWS CLI
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.
shell
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).
We used the
--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:
shell
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.
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