organizations:ListChildren

AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as organizations:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.

Policies (any)

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

Deny (Action)

NotAction

572 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). A wildcard also covers actions AWS adds later, without a new policy version. Index regenerated on every deploy.

First seen

From archive history

This action

Already present when the archive began, on 2019-02-10

Earliest appearance in any AWS managed policy tracked here, not an official AWS launch date. Matched case-insensitively, as IAM does.

Action reference

SAR-style (unofficial)

Service: AWS Organizations

Access level

List

Description

Grants permission to list all of the OUs or accounts that are contained in a parent OU or root

Resource types

organizationalunit
root

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

AdministratorAccessvia *
AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicyvia organizations:List*
AIOpsAssistantPolicyvia organizations:List*
AWSMarketplaceProcurementSystemAdminFullAccessvia organizations:List*
AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
AWSOrganizationsFullAccessvia organizations:*
AWSOrganizationsReadOnlyAccessvia organizations:List*
CloudFormationStackSetsOrgAdminServiceRolePolicyvia organizations:List*
CloudWatchOmniAWSIntegrationPolicyvia organizations:List*
ReadOnlyAccessvia organizations:List*
SecurityAuditvia organizations:List*
ViewOnlyAccessvia organizations:List*
WellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningvia organizations:List*

Deny (Action)

None

NotAction

None

Thanks to Ian McKay for iam-dataset (MIT), structured data derived from the AWS Service Authorization Reference. Not maintained by AWS and not guaranteed current. IAMTrail's managed policy archive is separate.

Definitions bundle regenerated on every deploy