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Troubleshooting general issues

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Use the information here to help you diagnose and fix access-denied or
other common issues that you might encounter when working with AWS
Organizations.

Topics

I get an "access denied" message when I make a request to AWS

Organizations (#troubleshoot_general_access-denied-service)
I get an "access denied" message when I make a request with temporary
security credentials (#troubleshoot_general_access-denied-temp-creds)
I get an "access denied" message when I try to leave an organization as a
member account or remove a member account as the management
account (#troubleshoot_general_error-leaving-org)
I get a "quota exceeded" message when I try to add an account to my
organization (#troubleshoot_general_error-adding-account)
I get a "this operation requires a wait period" message while adding or
removing accounts (#troubleshoot_general_error-wait-req)
I get an "organization is still initializing" message when I try to add an
account to my organization (#troubleshoot_general_error-still-init)
I get an "Invitations are disabled" message when I try to invite an
account to my organization. (#troubleshoot_general_error-changing-feature-
set)

Changes that I make aren't always immediately visible

(#troubleshoot_general_eventual-consistency)

I get an "access denied" message when I

make a request to AWS Organizations
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Verify that you have permissions to call the action and resource that you
have requested. An administrator must grant permissions by attaching
an IAM policy to your user, group, or role. If the policy statements that
grant those permissions include any conditions, such as time-of-day or
IP address restrictions, you also must meet those requirements when
you send the request. For information about viewing or modifying
policies for a user, group, or role, see Working with Policies
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage.ht
ml) in the IAM User Guide.

If you are signing API requests manually (without using the AWS SDKs
(http://aws.amazon.com/tools/) ), verify that you have correctly signed
the request
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signing_aws_api_requests.html)
.

I get an "access denied" message when I

make a request with temporary security
credentials
Verify that the user or role that you are using to make the request has
the correct permissions. Permissions for temporary security credentials
are derived from an user or role, so the permissions are limited to those
granted to the user or role. For more information about how
permissions for temporary security credentials are determined, see
Controlling Permissions for Temporary Security Credentials
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_contr
ol-access.html) in the IAM User Guide.

Verify that your requests are being signed correctly and that the request
is well formed. For details, see the toolkit
(http://aws.amazon.com/tools/) documentation for your chosen SDK or
Using Temporary Security Credentials to Request Access to AWS
Resources
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_use-
resources.html) in the IAM User Guide.

Verify that your temporary security credentials haven't expired. For

more information, see Requesting Temporary Security Credentials
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_reque
st.html) in the IAM User Guide.

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I get an "access denied" message when I try

to leave an organization as a member
account or remove a member account as
the management account
You can remove a member account only after you enable IAM user
access to billing in the member account. For more information, see
Activating Access to the Billing and Cost Management Console
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/grantaccess.htm
l#ControllingAccessWebsite-Activate) in the AWS Billing User Guide.

You can remove an account from your organization only if the account
has the information required for it to operate as a standalone account.
When you create an account in an organization using the AWS
Organizations console, API, or AWS CLI commands, that information
isn't automatically collected. For an account that you want to make
standalone, you must accept the AWS Customer Agreement, choose a
support plan, provide and verify the required contact information, and
provide a current payment method. AWS uses the payment method to
charge for any billable (not AWS Free Tier) AWS activity that occurs
while the account isn't attached to an organization. For more
information, see Leave an organization from your member account
(./orgs_manage_accounts_leave-as-member.html) .

I get a "quota exceeded" message when I

try to add an account to my organization
There is a maximum number of accounts that you can have in an
organization. Deleted or closed accounts continue to count against this
quota.

An invitation to join counts against the maximum number of accounts in

your organization. The count is returned if the invited account declines, the
management account cancels the invitation, or the invitation expires.

Before you close or delete an AWS account, remove it from your

organization (./orgs_manage_accounts_remove.html) so that it doesn't
continue to count against your quota.
See Maximum and minimum values (./orgs_reference_limits.html#min-max-
values) for information about how to request a quota increase.

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I get a "this operation requires a wait

period" message while adding or removing
accounts
Some actions require a wait period. For example, you can't immediately
remove newly created accounts. Try the action again in a few days. If you
experience issues with account quotas while adding and removing accounts,
see Maximum and minimum values (./orgs_reference_limits.html#min-max-
values) for information about how to request a quota increase.

I get an "organization is still initializing"

message when I try to add an account to my
organization
If you receive this error and it's been over an hour since you created the
organization, contact AWS Support
(https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home#/) .

I get an "Invitations are disabled" message

when I try to invite an account to my
organization.
This happens when you enable all features in your organization
(./orgs_manage_org_support-all-features.html) . This operation can take some
time and requires that all member accounts respond. Until the operation is
completed, you can't invite new accounts to join the organization.

Changes that I make aren't always

immediately visible
As a service that is accessed through computers in data centers around the
world, AWS Organizations uses a distributed computing model called
eventual consistency (https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency) . Any
change that you make in AWS Organizations takes time to become visible
from all possible endpoints. Some of the delay results from the time it takes

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to send the data from server to server or from replication zone to

replication zone. AWS Organizations also uses caching to improve
performance, but in some cases this can add time. The change might not be
visible until the previously cached data times out.

Design your global applications to account for these potential delays and
ensure that they work as expected, even when a change made in one
location isn't instantly visible at another.

For more information about how some other AWS services are affected by
this, consult the following resources:

Managing Data Consistency

(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/managing-data-
consistency.html) in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide

Amazon S3 Data Consistency Model

(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction.html#Consiste
ncyModel) in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide

Ensuring Consistency When Using Amazon S3 and Amazon Elastic

MapReduce for ETL Workflows (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-
data/ensuring-consistency-when-using-amazon-s3-and-amazon-elastic-
mapreduce-for-etl-workflows/) in the AWS Big Data Blog

EC2 Eventual Consistency

(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/query-api-
troubleshooting.html#eventual-consistency) in the Amazon EC2 API
Reference.

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