Get all accounts within an AWS Organizations organizational unit recursively (all accounts nested under any child OUs)

get-accounts-recursive.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Error - Usage: $0 <parent-id>"
  exit 1
fi

set -eu
# set -x

get_accounts_recursive() {
  accounts="$(aws organizations list-accounts-for-parent --parent-id "$1" --output text --query 'Accounts[][Id]')"
  for ou in $(aws organizations list-organizational-units-for-parent --parent-id "$1" --output text --query 'OrganizationalUnits[][Id]'); do
    accounts="$accounts $(get_accounts_recursive "$ou")"
  done
  echo "$accounts" | xargs
}

get_accounts_recursive $1

get_accounts_recursive.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import boto3

orgs = boto3.client('organizations', region_name='us-east-1')
accounts_paginator = orgs.get_paginator('list_accounts_for_parent')
ou_paginator = orgs.get_paginator('list_organizational_units_for_parent')

def get_accounts_recursive(parent_id):
  accounts = []
  for page in accounts_paginator.paginate(ParentId=parent_id):
    accounts += page['Accounts']
  for page in ou_paginator.paginate(ParentId=parent_id):
    for ou in page['OrganizationalUnits']:
      accounts += get_accounts_recursive(ou['Id'])
  return accounts



# Example organization structure:
# 
#   Org o-abcde12345/
#     Root r-abcd/
#       OU ou-abcd-aaaaaaaa/
#         OU ou-abcd-bbbbbbbb/
#           Account 'account-1' 111111111111 (master)
#         OU ou-abcd-cccccccc/
#           Account 'account-2' 222222222222
#         OU ou-abcd-dddddddd/
#           Account 'account-3' 333333333333
# 
# Example usage:
from pprint import pprint as pp
pp(get_accounts_recursive('r-abcd'))
# [{'Arn': 'arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:account/o-abcde12345/222222222222',
#   'Email': '[email protected]',
#   'Id': '222222222222',
#   'JoinedMethod': 'INVITED',
#   'JoinedTimestamp': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 5, 9, 9, 18, 655000, tzinfo=tzlocal()),
#   'Name': 'account-2',
#   'Status': 'ACTIVE'},
#  {'Arn': 'arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:account/o-abcde12345/333333333333',
#   'Email': '[email protected]',
#   'Id': '333333333333',
#   'JoinedMethod': 'INVITED',
#   'JoinedTimestamp': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 6, 12, 12, 21, 16000, tzinfo=tzlocal()),
#   'Name': 'account-3',
#   'Status': 'ACTIVE'},
#  {'Arn': 'arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:account/o-abcde12345/111111111111',
#   'Email': '[email protected]',
#   'Id': '111111111111',
#   'JoinedMethod': 'INVITED',
#   'JoinedTimestamp': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 5, 8, 52, 4, 697000, tzinfo=tzlocal()),
#   'Name': 'account-1',
#   'Status': 'ACTIVE'}]
pp(get_accounts_recursive('ou-abcd-bbbbbbbb'))
# [{'Arn': 'arn:aws:organizations::111111111111:account/o-abcde12345/111111111111',
#   'Email': '[email protected]',
#   'Id': '111111111111',
#   'JoinedMethod': 'INVITED',
#   'JoinedTimestamp': datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 5, 8, 52, 4, 697000, tzinfo=tzlocal()),
#   'Name': 'account-1',
#   'Status': 'ACTIVE'}]