AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is a global account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. It provides capabilities to group accounts into Organizational Units (OUs) and apply governance policies, such as Service…

Key facts

First appeared: 2017
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS Organizations was created to address the significant operational and security challenges faced by enterprises managing numerous AWS accounts. Before its introduction, organizations struggled with inconsistent security policies across accounts, fragmented billing visibility, and the manual overhead of applying governance standards. It solved the problem of scalable, centralized management and governance for multi-account AWS environments.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

AWS Security Hub
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config
AWS Control Tower
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Service Catalog
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) / AWS IAM Identity Center
AWS Backup

Notable users

Capital One
Netflix
Siemens
Amazon.com
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