1.11 Organizations

“Central governance and management across AWS accounts.”

https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/

AWS Organizations Features

Getting Started with AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and scale your workloads on AWS. Whether you are a growing startup or a large enterprise, Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts.

Using AWS Organizations, you can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance. You can also simplify billing by setting up a single payment method for all of your AWS accounts. Through integrations with other AWS services, you can use Organizations to define central configurations and resource sharing across accounts in your organization. AWS Organizations is available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.

Benefits

• CENTRALLY MANAGE POLICIES ACROSS MULTIPLE AWS ACCOUNTS
• GOVERN ACCESS TO AWS SERVICES, RESOURCES, AND REGIONS
• AUTOMATE AWS ACCOUNT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT
• CONFIGURE AWS SERVICES ACROSS MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
• CONSOLIDATE BILLING ACROSS MULTIPLE AWS ACCOUNTS

Use Cases

• IMPLEMENT AND ENFORCE CORPORATE SECURITY, AUDIT, AND COMPLIANCE POLICIES
• SHARE RESOURCES ACROSS ACCOUNTS
• AUTOMATE THE CREATION OF AWS ACCOUNTS AND CATEGORIZE WORKLOADS USING GROUPS

Tutorials and Guides

• Documentation
• API Guide
• Getting Started Guide
• Tutorial: Creating and Configuring an Organization
• Tutorial: Monitor Important Changes to Your Organization with CloudWatch Events
• Differences between a service control policy and an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy
• Security Blog