AWS Organizations

wikipedia:AWS Organizations (Nov 2016)

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_introduction.html
• Pricing: Free of charge

• Governance
• Compliance
• AWS CloudTrail: aws cloudtrail create-trail

• aws organizations create-account
• aws organizations describe-account --account-id 0123456789

Terraform resources:

• aws_organizations_account
• aws_organizations_delegated_administrator
• aws_organizations_organization
• aws_organizations_organizational_unit
• aws_organizations_policy
• aws_organizations_policy_attachment
• aws_organizations_resource_policy

Activites

• Read Best practices for a multi-account environment
• Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-organizations?tab=Votes
• Read https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/faqs/
• Renaming an OU
• Update the AWS account name, email address, or password for the root user
• AWS access portal
• Accessing member accounts in an organization with AWS Organizations

Related terms

• AWSOrganizationsFullAccess
• AWS accounts
• AWS Management & Governance
• AWS IAM Identity Center (Jul 2022)
• AWS Single Sign-On (Feb 2017)
• AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) (2018)
• AWS Control Tower (Jun 2019)
• AWS Landing Zone (Jun 2018)
• Organization Units (OU)
• AWS Service Control Policy (SCP)
• suaws
• Related role: OrganizationAccountAccessRole, AWSServiceRoleForOrganizations
• Terraform resource: aws_organizations_account
• AWS Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation
• Google Cloud organizations
• AWS Organizations services

See also

• AWS accounts, alias: aws organizations [ describe-account | move-account | list-accounts | create-account | close-account | account-id | attach-policy ], AWS IAM Dashboard, AWS Management account, Root account
• AWS Organizations: aws organizations ( describe-account | list-roots | list-accounts | list-delegated-administrators | create-account | describe-organizations | enable-all-features | enable-aws-service-access ), OrganizationAccountAccessRole
• AWS, AWS Management & Governance, AWS Organizations, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Control Tower, AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), AWS Service Catalog, AWS Landing Zone, AWS SSO

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/announcing-aws-organizations-now-in-preview/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/pricing.html