From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization (2019)

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AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations

- [Instructor] When you have multiple AWS accounts, it is a challenge to manage these accounts individually. Each account has its own billing, access management, security, and compliance requirements. AWS Organizations is an account management service that allows you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into a single organization. This organization can be centrally managed. AWS Organizations offers centralized management of all your AWS accounts, consolidated billing for all member accounts. The consolidated master account pays for all the member accounts. Hierarchical grouping of your accounts. This allows you to group your accounts into organizational units, also knows as OUs, and attach different access policies to each OU. Control over the AWS services and API actions. The administrator of the master account of an organization can restrict which AWS services and API actions the users and roles in each member account can access. This restriction even overrides the administrators of…

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