Update the primary contact for your AWS account
You can update the primary contact information associated with your account, including your contact's full name, company name, mailing address, telephone number, and website address.
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Phone number and email address requirements
Before you proceed with updating your account's primary contact information, we recommend that you first review the following requirements when entering phone numbers and email addresses.
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Phone numbers should only contain numbers.
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Phone numbers must start with a
+and country code and must not have any leading zeros or additional spaces after the country code. For example,+1(US/Canada) or+44(UK). -
Phone numbers must not include hyphens "
-" or whitespaces between the area code, exchange code, and local code. For example, +12025550179. -
For security purposes, phone numbers must be capable of receiving SMS from AWS. Toll free numbers will not be accepted since most don't support SMS.
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For business AWS accounts, it's a best practice to enter a company phone number and email address rather than one belonging to an individual. Configuring the accounts root user with an individual's email address or phone number can make your account difficult to recover if that individual leaves the company.
Update the primary contact for a standalone AWS account or management account
To edit your primary contact details for a standalone AWS account, perform the steps in the following procedure. The AWS Management Console procedure below always works only in the standalone context. You can use the AWS Management Console to access or change only the primary contact information of the account you used to call the operation.