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AWS::Organizations::OrganizationalUnit

  • An Organizational Unit (OU) is a container for accounts that enables you to organize your accounts to apply policies according to your business requirements
  • It's best practice to keep the management account (formerly known as "master account") under the root OU

Organization Units

Root OU

  • The Root OU is the parent OU for all accounts in an organization and all other OUs in the organization
  • When you apply a policy to the root OU, it applies to every OU and account in the organization.
  • The root OU cannot be removed

Properties

Type: AWS::Organizations::OrganizationalUnit
Properties:
  Name: String
  ParentId: String
  Tags:
    - Tag