AWS - Organizations



  • Is an account management service that allows you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts under an Organization, that your create and manage.
  • Centrally manage policies across multiple accounts.
  • Control access to AWS services.
  • Automate AWS account creation and management.
  • Consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts.
  • Specifically allow or deny AWS services to an account using Service Control Policies (SCP). SCPs override policies defined within account.
  • Available in two feature sets:
    • Consolidated Billing
    • All Features
  • Currently a soft limit of 20 linked accounts for consolidated billing.
  • All linked accounts are independent, they can not access resources of one another.
  • One bill per AWS account.
  • Easy to track charges and allocate costs.
  • Take advantage of volume pricing discounts, since billing is done on combined usage.
  • Reserved EC2 instances are distributed across all accounts.
  • Paying account should be used for billing only. Do not deploy resources under paying account.
  • CloudTrail is on per account basis, but can be aggregated by using S3 bucket to share logs and accessing them from Paying account.


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