AWS::Organizations::Organization
- Allow managing multiple AWS accounts
- In AWS either you have one organization or have none, you cannot have multiple organizations. Instead you can have multiple Organizational Units (OU) for your organization
- An organization always have a
management account
(formerly known as "master account") and optionally multiple member accounts
Hierarchy
- An
Organization
contains Organization Units
which contains Accounts
- The
Root OU
of an organization is automatically created and cannot be removed
Consolidated Billing
- An account
consolidates billing
across all accounts (single payment method)
- With that you benefit from volume discounts for EC2, S3, etc
Properties
Type: AWS::Organizations::Organization
Properties:
FeatureSet: String