AWS Organizations | General

Question 1

What is AWS Organizations?

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Answer 1

AWS Organizations offers policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts. With Organizations, you can create groups of accounts and then apply policies to those groups. Organizations enables you to centrally manage policies across multiple accounts, without requiring custom scripts and manual processes.

Question 2

Which administrative actions does AWS Organizations enable?

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Answer 2

AWS Organizations enables the following administrative actions:

Create an AWS account and add it to your organization, or add an existing AWS account to your organization.

Organize your AWS accounts into groups called organizational units (OUs).

Organize your OUs into a hierarchy that reflects your company’s structure.

Centrally manage and attach policies to the entire organization, OUs, or individual AWS accounts.

Question 3

Which controls does AWS Organizations enable in this release?

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Answer 3

In this release, you can define and enforce the AWS service actions, such as Amazon EC2 RunInstances, that are available for use in different AWS accounts within an organization.

Question 4

Do I need to migrate from my Consolidated Billing family to AWS Organizations?

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Answer 4

No, AWS has migrated Consolidated Billing families to AWS Organizations automatically, with only consolidated billing features enabled.