Streamlining Your AWS Account Management with AWS Organization

Introduction

AWS Organizations is a service that helps to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts in an organization. It enables you to create and manage AWS accounts, apply policies for these accounts, and consolidate billing across multiple accounts. With AWS Organizations, you can group accounts together and apply policies to those groups, which helps to simplify the management of your AWS resources.

AWS Organizations is useful for large organizations that have many AWS accounts and need to manage them efficiently. It helps to ensure that all accounts are following best practices for security, compliance, and cost management. By consolidating billing across multiple accounts, organizations can also save money on their AWS usage.

Overall, AWS Organizations helps to simplify the management of AWS accounts and resources, making it easier to scale and grow your organization’s cloud infrastructure.

Architecture Diagram of Organization Unit

Steps to configure AWS Organization

Step 1 – Click on the AWS Organization and click on the add an AWS Account.

Step 2 – Give the account name and the email ID for creating a new account and click on create AWS Account.

Step 3 – After creating the account console will look like this.

Step 4 – You will get a confirmation mail and click on forgot password and create the new password. You can also invite the existing account to the organization. Give the existing account id and click on send invitation.

Step 5 – Login into the existing AWS account which you have mentioned above and go to the aws organization console and click on the accept invitation.

Step 6 – After that you can see the account in the AWS organization.

Benefits of AWS Organization

• Centralized account management: AWS Organizations allows you to manage multiple AWS accounts from a single location, making it easier to govern and manage your infrastructure.
• Simplified billing and cost management: By grouping multiple AWS accounts under an organization, you can simplify billing and cost management by consolidating all the bills into a single payment.
• Enhanced security: AWS Organizations provides centralized security controls, which allows you to set up policies that apply to all accounts in the organization. This helps to ensure that all accounts meet your organization’s security standards.
• Better resource management: With AWS Organizations, you can set up policies that control how resources are created and used across all accounts in the organization. This helps to ensure that resources are being used efficiently and effectively.
• Streamlined compliance: AWS Organizations allows you to apply policies to all accounts in the organization, which can help you to ensure that all accounts are compliant with your organization’s policies and regulations.
• Increased agility: By using AWS Organizations, you can more easily create and manage new accounts as your organization grows or changes, making it easier to respond to changing business needs.

Managing the permissions in the Organization

Click on the root account and select the account which you want to attach the policies and click on attach and update the policies and save it.

Managing the permissions in the Account

Select the account which you want to attach the policies click on the policies and click on attach and attach the policies and save the policies.

Note:

1. AWS Organization can be performed in the root account only.
2. You can give the service control policies to all the accounts in the organization.

Conclusion

AWS Organizations is a service that helps to simplify the management of multiple AWS accounts within an organization. It provides a centralized management console for creating and managing accounts, applying policies, and consolidating billing across multiple accounts. This service is particularly useful for large organizations that need to manage many AWS accounts and want to ensure that they are following best practices for security, compliance, and cost management. With AWS Organizations, organizations can scale and grow their cloud infrastructure while ensuring efficient management and cost savings.

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