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AWS Organizations

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AWS Organizations

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- [Instructor] Organizations with workloads hosted in AWS usually begin with one AWS account and add more later as their business requirements grow and change. Customers have multiple AWS accounts because it allows them to group workloads based on business purpose and ownership, apply distinct security controls based on environment, restrict access to sensitive information, limit the scope of impact from adverse events, and support multiple IP operating models. But more accounts also means increased management overhead. For each account, you will need to control access, monitor governance, audit for compliance, and of course, manage billing. AWS Organizations is an account management service that allows you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. As an administrator of the organization, you can add existing accounts or create new accounts in the organization. The account…

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