getting the current user account-id in boto3
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I need to get the account-id of the 'current user' in a boto3
script. Up to now my best solution is to parse the current user arn:
>>> import boto3
>>> account_id = boto3.resource('iam').CurrentUser().arn.split(':')[4]
but I was wondering if there is a more 'lightweight' approach. In fact
>>> timeit.timeit("boto3.resource('iam').CurrentUser().arn",
... 'import boto3', number=10)
4.8895583080002325
and I actually do not need the CurrentUser
resource in my script.
Boto3 Solutions
Solution 1 - Boto3
You can get the account ID by using the STS API:
>>> import boto3
>>> boto3.client('sts').get_caller_identity().get('Account')
'012345678901'
Solution 2 - Boto3
EDIT: There is now an api you can call, see mixja's answer.
First off, there is no way to get the account id straight from boto3
. There is no information stored locally that can tell you that, and there is no service API that returns it outside the context of an ARN. So there is no way to get it from boto3
without inspecting an ARN.
Secondly, using timeit
can be very misleading with boto3
or botocore
because there is a bit of warm-up time when you create a client or resource for the first time (the service definitions are loaded on the fly).