AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Service Catalog
Explore how AWS Organizations lets you centrally manage multiple accounts with consolidated billing and policies. Understand AWS Control Tower's role in setting up secure multi-account environments. Learn to use AWS Service Catalog for centralized management of IT services and compliant resource provisioning.
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AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations is an account management tool that allows us to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that we create and manage. With AWS Organizations, we can centralize billing, apply policies across multiple accounts, and automate account and resource creation. This makes it easier to manage multiple AWS accounts and ensures compliance with our organization’s policies.
Features
Let’s look at the features of the AWS Organizations service.
- AWS Organizations is a global service.
- It’s free to use.
- Each AWS Organization has a main account and various member accounts.
- The default maximum number of member accounts in an AWS Organization is 10. However, this limit can be increased by contacting AWS support.
- Member accounts can only belong to one AWS Organization at a time.
- It allows centralized management of all member accounts.
- It allows consolidated billing for all member accounts. We can use the main account of an AWS Organization to consolidate and pay for all member accounts.
- It allows for hierarchical grouping of accounts using organization units (OUs) to meet budgetary, security, or compliance requirements.
- We can implement service control policies (SCPs) to specify the maximum permissions for member accounts in the organization.
- SCPs can