Using an SSM Parameter to Pass Parameters To A Container

ACM.429 Abstracting out variations to prevent hardcoded values in the code in a deployment container

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In the last post I migrated code to deploy a delegated administrator over to our new container deployment method.

Setting Up A Delegated Organizations Administrator With CloudFormation

One of the things I had to modify in the code to look up the account ID of the account we want to use as our delegated administrator account like this:

But what if an organization wants to use another account name besides org-policies as the account for their organizations delegated administrator?