How to Get your Account ID with AWS CLI
Borislav Hadzhiev
Fri Sep 24 2021·2 min read
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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.
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).
To only return the account id, we've set the --query parameter to filter by
the Account property.
In the command above, we've 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.
Further Reading #
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