AWS Organizations

An overview of AWS Organizations

📖 Introduction to AWS Organizations

Depiction of an AWS Organization OU Structure

AWS Organizations is a service that allows you to centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources. It enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an Organizational Unit (OU) structure. With AWS Organizations, you can automate account creation, apply policies to groups of accounts, and simplify billing by using a single payment method for all your accounts.

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🗒️ Understanding AWS Organization's Features

These highlight the immediate features of AWS Organizations you get after enabling. However, once you have an Organization setup, you can more easily centralize the deployment and management of other AWS services such as AWS Identity Center, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, and more.

1. Organizational Management

Structure your AWS accounts into different OUs e.g., an OU for Production accounts and an OU for Development accounts.

2. Security and Compliance

Apply Service Control Policies (SCPs), Resource Control Policies (RCPs), Declarative Policies, Tagging Policies, AI Policies, and more to ensure that accounts adhere to your organization's security and compliance requirements. These can be applied to the Root OU, other OUs, and individual AWS accounts.

3. Centralized Billing

All of your billing can be configured and centralized across your AWS accounts.

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📚 Additional Resources

• AWS Organizations Documentation

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🏗️ Hands-on Exercises

Lab: Deploying AWS Organizations via Terraform