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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