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AWS Organizations

Centrally manage and govern your environment as you scale your AWS resources.

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Overview

AWS Organizations helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources. With AWS Organizations, you can create and manage multiple AWS accounts, group them into organizational units (OUs), and apply policies to those OUs. This helps you to simplify billing, control access, and ensure compliance across all of your AWS accounts.

✨ Key Features

  • Centralized Account Management
  • Consolidated Billing
  • Service Control Policies (SCPs)
  • Tag Policies
  • Backup Policies

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Native AWS service
  • Deep integration with other AWS services
  • Granular control over permissions and policies

Unique Value: Provides the essential, centralized management and governance capabilities required to scale AWS resources across multiple accounts securely and efficiently.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Managing billing for multiple AWS accounts from a single payer account Creating a hierarchical structure of accounts that reflects business units Enforcing security and compliance boundaries using SCPs Sharing resources like VPCs or licenses across accounts

✅ Best For

  • The foundational layer for all enterprise multi-account strategies on AWS.

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Not applicable for single-account users.

🏆 Alternatives

Azure Management Groups Google Cloud Resource Manager

It is the native and required service for multi-account management on AWS, unlike third-party tools which build upon it.

💻 Platforms

Web API CLI

🔌 Integrations

AWS Control Tower AWS IAM Identity Center (formerly AWS SSO) AWS RAM and many other AWS services

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Live Chat
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (AWS Business Support or Enterprise Support tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 1, 2, 3 ✓ ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018 ✓ PCI DSS ✓ HIPAA ✓ FedRAMP

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: AWS Organizations is offered at no additional charge.

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