Organizations

Offers policy based Management for multiple AWS accounts

Features

· create groups of accounts and the apply policies to those accounts

· apply Policy framework to some account groups or all

· consolidated billing

· eventually consistent

Administrative Actions

· Create accounts and add to OU`s or add existing accounts to Organizations

· Structure OU`s in hierarchy like the company structure

Master Account

· Each Organization has a master account which cannot be changed in the organization

· member account is a non master account that is part of the Organization, which can belong to only one organization at a time

· administrative root: - top level starting point of organization

· organizational Units - OU

· Policy

o Service Control Policy: that specifies the services and actions users and roles can use in the accounts that SCP affects. SCP are filters for AWS services

· Organization Hierarchy - can be 5 levels deep

· Can remove member accounts and make them stand alone accounts

· 2 feature sets; consolidated billing and SCP

Pricing

· free