Update the primary contact for your AWS account - AWS Account Management
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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.

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.

  • Phone numbers should only contain numbers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

AWS Management Console
To edit your primary contact for a standalone AWS account
Minimum permissions

To perform the following steps, you must have at least the following IAM permissions:

  • account:GetContactInformation (to see the primary contact details)

  • account:PutContactInformation (to update the primary contact details)

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console as an IAM user or role that has the minimum permissions.

  2. Choose your account name on the top right of the window, and then choose Account.

  3. Scroll down to the section Contact information, and next to it choose Edit.

  4. Change the values in any of the available fields.

  5. After you have made all of your changes, choose Update.

AWS CLI & SDKs

You can retrieve, update, or delete the primary contact information by using the following AWS CLI commands or their AWS SDK equivalent operations:

Notes
Minimum permissions

For each operation, you must have the permission that maps to that operation:

  • account:GetContactInformation

  • account:PutContactInformation

If you use these individual permissions, you can grant some users the ability to only read the contact information, and grant others the ability to both read and write.

The following example retrieves the current primary contact information for the caller's account.

$ aws account get-contact-information { "ContactInformation": { "AddressLine1": "123 Any Street", "City": "Seattle", "CompanyName": "Example Corp, Inc.", "CountryCode": "US", "DistrictOrCounty": "King", "FullName": "Saanvi Sarkar", "PhoneNumber": "+15555550100", "PostalCode": "98101", "StateOrRegion": "WA", "WebsiteUrl": "https://www.examplecorp.com" } }

The following example sets new primary contact information for the caller's account.

$ aws account put-contact-information --contact-information \ '{"AddressLine1": "123 Any Street", "City": "Seattle", "CompanyName": "Example Corp, Inc.", "CountryCode": "US", "DistrictOrCounty": "King", "FullName": "Saanvi Sarkar", "PhoneNumber": "+15555550100", "PostalCode": "98101", "StateOrRegion": "WA", "WebsiteUrl": "https://www.examplecorp.com"}'

This command produces no output if it's successful.