AWS Organizations
AWS Tutorial: AWS Organizations
Welcome to the AWS Organizations lesson. When a company uses AWS, they rarely use just one account. They use dozens or hundreds of accounts for different departments. AWS Organizations helps you centrally manage all of them.
Why Learn AWS Organizations?
Managing billing, security policies, and user access across 50 different AWS accounts manually is impossible. Organizations solves this by letting you group accounts together, providing consolidated billing and centralized security rules.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn:
- What AWS Organizations is.
- Organizational Units (OUs).
- Service Control Policies (SCPs).
Centrally Managing Accounts
AWS Organizations allows you to centrally manage and govern multiple accounts.
- Consolidated Billing: Instead of getting 50 different credit card charges, AWS Organizations rolls up the usage of all your accounts into one single monthly bill paid by the master account.
- Organizational Units (OUs): You can group accounts into OUs (e.g., "Marketing OU", "Production OU", "Sandbox OU"). This allows you to apply specific rules to specific groups of accounts easily.
Service Control Policies (SCPs)
An SCP is a massive security rule that you apply at the Organization or OU level. It overrides everything. If you apply an SCP to the "Marketing OU" that says "Deny access to Amazon Redshift", then absolutely no one in the Marketing accounts can use Redshift—not even the root administrators of those accounts!
Exercise
?Which feature of AWS Organizations provides a single payment method for all the AWS accounts in your company?