AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you scale your AWS resources. It allows you to create new AWS accounts, group them into Organizational Units (OUs), and apply policies.

Key Features

• Consolidated Billing: View and pay for all member accounts from a single management account.
• Service Control Policies (SCPs): Central control over the maximum available permissions for accounts.
• Organizational Units (OUs): Logical groups of accounts (e.g., Development, Production).
• Automated Account Creation: Programmatically create new accounts.

Exam Tips

• "Consolidated Billing": Answer is AWS Organizations.
• "Manage multiple accounts": Answer is AWS Organizations.
• "Restrict services across accounts": Use Service Control Policies (SCPs).
• "Volume discounts": Achieved via consolidated billing.

Common Use Cases

• Centralized Management: Managing security and billing for hundreds of accounts.
• Environment Isolation: Separating Dev, Test, and Prod into different accounts/OUs.
• Regulatory Compliance: Enforcing policies (e.g., "deny access to non-approved regions") across the organization.