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Prerequisites - Guidance for Account Assessment for AWS Organizations
Activate AWS RAM for AWS Organizations accounts

Prerequisites

Before you deploy the guidance:

  • Install Git.

  • Install Node.js 22 or later and npm.

  • Install Python 3.12.

  • Install Poetry 2 and the Poetry export plugin.

  • Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

  • Create AWS CLI profiles for the Hub account, each Spoke account, and the Organizations management account.

  • Verify that the deployment identities can create AWS CDK and CloudFormation stacks and all resources defined by the stacks, including named IAM roles.

  • Record your organization ID, Organizations management account ID, Hub account ID, and each Spoke account ID.

  • Enable resource sharing with AWS Organizations in AWS RAM.

This guidance uses Amazon Cognito, which is not available in all AWS Regions. Choose a Region where Amazon Cognito and the other services used by the guidance are available. For current availability, refer to the AWS Regional Services List.

Activate AWS RAM for AWS Organizations accounts

Follow the instructions in Enable resource sharing within AWS Organizations in the AWS Resource Access Manager User Guide.