[New Data Source]: `aws_organizations_roots`

[AliAllomani]

Description

The currently available data source to fetch the organization root is aws_organizations_organization. However, this data source also fetch several other information such accounts list which takes long time in large scale organizations and requires higher permissions that needed.

a new data source to get organization's roots only would be more suffient

Requested Resource(s) and/or Data Source(s)

• aws_organizations_roots

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "aws_organizations_roots" "org" {}

data "aws_organizations_organizational_unit" "ou" {
  parent_id = data.aws_organizations_roots.org.roots[0].id
  name      = "dev"
}

References

• https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/26288
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/APIReference/API_ListRoots.html

Would you like to implement a fix?

None

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