Organizational Hierarchies and Policies in AWS, Azure, and GCP

Multicloud.5 Accounts, OUs, Subscriptions, Tenants, Folders and Projects

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
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16 min readAug 24, 2023

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In the last post I wrote about how you can set up cloud accounts more securely.

The next thing you are probably going to want to think about is how do you structure your account to keep it secure and track costs?

If you simply let people deploy anything they want in any manner they wish, then security is out the window in a large organization. You’re probably also going to have a hard time tracking costs in a manner that lets…

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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