feature: Organization Account Entities

[JustinPullen]

🔖 Feature description

I would love to see this plugin consider pulling Account information from an AWS Organization.

I want to use a service account or a role to pull all my Organization's Accounts so I can use them and their account information in my scaffolder templates via an Entity Picker.

🎤 Context

I work in a large organization with hundreds of accounts and would love to have this data accessible in my backstage instance, pulled directly from AWS.

✌️ Possible Implementation

I am most interested in the API call for "ListAccounts." It would be excellent if a processor could save that data as a resource with metadata.

[niallthomson]

Hi @JustinPullen this functionality actually exists upstream its just not documented:

https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/plugins/catalog-backend-module-aws/src/processors/AwsOrganizationCloudAccountProcessor.ts

You'd use it like this:

catalog:
  processors:
    awsOrganization:
      provider:
        accountId: '1234567890' # AWS account ID where you query for the accounts
  locations:
  - type: aws-cloud-accounts
    target: <ORG ID>

At some point we probably want to get this reimplemented as a provider.