Category: AWS Organizations

How do you deploy hundreds of AWS accounts for a large-scale hackathon? Provide real-time visibility to leadership? Enable participant self-service while monitoring spending across accounts? Enterprise innovation events often lack real-time visibility into participant engagement, resource utilization, and outcomes. Leaders can’t see engagement metrics; builders can’t access accounts and information on-demand. Without observability and governance, […]

Your AWS journey, whether starting with a handful of accounts or scaling to thousands, requires a strong foundation. Think of it like building a skyscraper: the taller you plan to go, the stronger your base needs to be. As your organization grows, so do the challenges of managing multiple AWS accounts. Security policies, access controls, […]

AWS Organizations enables customers to centrally manage their AWS accounts. Since many customers prefer to automate the account creation process, they can leverage CreateAccount API, thereby creating an account vending pipeline. This pipeline standardizes the deployment of policies, roles, and resources across new accounts while managing the complete lifecycle through eventual account closure. Through this […]

Managing a fleet of AWS resources at scale can be challenging. Organizations rely on multiple solutions to automate tasks, collect inventory, patch instances, and maintain security compliance. Organizations need to access instances without opening inbound ports or managing SSH keys. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) simplifies this by serving as a centralized management solution that supports […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers AWS managed notifications, a centralized way to manage and view default notifications in AWS User Notifications. Currently, only AWS Health events are available as managed notifications. With this new feature, you can stay informed about critical updates related to operations and account health. AWS User notifications channels include the […]

Responding to security findings is important for maintaining the security posture of your Amazon Web Service (AWS) environment. By promptly addressing identified vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or potential threats, you can mitigate risks, protect your data and resources, and help ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. As shown in Image 1, effective incident response follows a […]

When managing multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations organization, it’s important to implement central access controls that govern both identities and resources. These controls are essential for ensuring security, compliance, and scalability across your environment. AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs), resource control policies (RCPs), and declarative policies enable you to centrally configure and manage […]

Introduction AWS Organizations provides the capability to centrally manage and govern your AWS environment. As an organization, you can delegate administration of specific AWS services integrated with AWS Organizations to authorized individuals or teams. Implementing effective controls for these delegated administrators is essential to ensuring the security, compliance, and operational efficiency of your AWS environment. […]

December 24, 2024: This post was republished to update terminology for AWS RAM resource shares and to update links. AWS customers use AWS Organizations as the basis of a multi-account AWS environment as defined by the Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts AWS Whitepaper. Organizations is an AWS service that enables you to centrally […]

AWS Organizations provides capabilities for AWS customers to centrally manage accounts in their multi-account environment. As the business landscape evolves, customers may need to close multiple AWS accounts or an entire organization. This could take place during mergers and acquisitions, to support cleanup efforts which reduce cost from unused resources, or decommissioning a venture or […]