AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is a powerful service designed to help you centrally manage and govern your AWS accounts. It simplifies the management of multiple accounts by providing a unified environment where you can organize, secure, and monitor your resources.

Key Features of AWS Organizations

• Centralized Account Management:
  • Consolidated Billing: Group multiple AWS accounts under a single organization to receive a consolidated bill for all member accounts.
  • Account Creation and Management: Easily create new AWS accounts and manage existing ones within your organization.
• Service Control Policies (SCPs):
  • Policy-Based Governance: Implement and enforce policies across your organization to control which AWS services and resources can be accessed by member accounts.
  • Granular Permissions: Apply fine-grained permissions to individual accounts or entire organizational units (OUs) to ensure compliance and security.
• Cost Management:
  • Cost Allocation: Assign costs to specific projects, teams, or business units by tagging resources and using cost allocation reports.
  • Savings Plans: Take advantage of savings plans and reserved instances across multiple accounts to optimize costs.
• Resource Sharing:
  • Share Resources: Use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) to share AWS resources like VPCs and transit gateways across accounts within your organization.
• Security and Compliance:
  • Centralized Security Management: Use AWS Organizations to centralize security controls and ensure compliance across all accounts.
  • Automated Policy Enforcement: Automatically apply security baselines and governance policies to new accounts as they are created.
• Monitoring and Reporting:
  • AWS CloudTrail Integration: Enable organization-wide logging with AWS CloudTrail to monitor activity across all accounts.
  • AWS Config: Use AWS Config to enforce compliance rules and track resource configurations across your organization.

Why AWS Organizations is Important for Exam Preparation

Understanding AWS Organizations is critical for managing complex environments with multiple AWS accounts. For the AWS SAA-C03 certification, focus on how AWS Organizations can be used to streamline account management, enforce security policies, and optimize costs. Remember key concepts like SCPs, consolidated billing, and resource sharing, as they are likely to appear in exam scenarios related to multi-account management and governance.