From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization (2019)
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Create an AWS Organization policy - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization (2019)
Create an AWS Organization policy
- [Narrator] An organizational unit, also known as an OU, is a group of AWS accounts within an organization. It may also contain other OUs enabling you to create an hierarchy. For example, you may group all accounts that belong to the same location into a location OU. In a location OU, you may group accounts that belong to individual departments into department OUs. OUs are useful when you need to apply the same controls or policies to a subset of accounts. Policies can be applied to the OUs or directly to the AWS accounts. OUs inherit the policies from the parent OU in addition to any controls directly applied to them. Let's create an organizational unit, or OU. I'll first click on Organize accounts. Right now, we do not have an OU. To create one, I'll click on this button that says New organization unit. We need to give it a name. Let's call it as Production OU. Then I'll click on Create organization unit. The tree on the left shows Root at the top and the Production OU branched…
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