AWS: The State of Account State

 In September 2025, AWS announced that the Account information in the Organizations Service will have a new State field to replace the Status field. Since that date, both fields are available for all Organizations operations, but the Status field is vowed to be removed on September 2026.

When you read such an announcement and you know your code is using the Status field, you project to review your code and update it. So we did quite immediately, but we could not see the new State field when executing our lambdas. So we postponed the update for later.

Recently, I had another look at the problem, and still could not see any State field appearing in lambdas. I tested some call to DescribeAccount within CloudShell, but the field was really there. So I decided to run the following lambda:

import boto3

import botocore

def lambda_handler(event, context):

    print("boto3:", boto3.__version__)

    print("botocore:", botocore.__version__)

    org_client = boto3.client("organizations")

    response = org_client.describe_account(AccountId="123456789012")

    print(response)

I was surprised by the result.

boto3: 1.40.4
botocore: 1.40.4

Those versions were released in August 2025, before the update. CloudShell in my test uses botocore 1.42.72, which is from March this year. When I notified AWS Support about it, they just told me to use a Layer with a more recent botocore included. How long should I keep this temporary workaround?