AWS — Organizations Overview

What is AWS Organization? — Introduction to AWS Organizations, Benefits, Use Cases and Best Practices.

AWS Organizations

TL;DR

AWS Organizations is an account management service which allows to manage multiple AWS accounts centrally.

AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing, control access, compliance, security, and share resources across your AWS accounts. It is very easy setup and available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.

AWS Organizations has two feature sets:

1. Consolidated billing — It provides basic management tools that you can use to centrally manage the accounts in your organization.
2. All features — It provides all the consolidated billing features, plus a set of advanced features such as service control policies.

AWS Organizations Components

Master Account

• A master account is the AWS account you use to create your organization.
• This can be an account designated for managing AWS accounts. It is the central management and governance hub.