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Raymond Ma

Author: Raymond Ma

Raymond is a Principal Product Manager on the AWS Identity team where he manages AWS Organizations and Accounts. Outside of work, he enjoys taking care of his dog, Merlin, climbing, and volunteering with King County Search and Rescue.

AWS Organizations now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for central governance and management of AWS accounts

AWS Organizations is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to centrally govern and manage your AWS GovCloud (US) accounts. AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Using AWS Organizations, you can: Define organization-wide permission guardrails to establish controls […]

AWS Organizations now requires email address verification in order to invite accounts to an organization

AWS Organizations, the service for centrally managing multiple AWS accounts, enables you to invite existing accounts to join your organization. To provide additional assurance about your organization’s identity to AWS accounts that you invite, AWS Organizations is adding a new feature. Beginning on September 27, 2018, you’ll need to verify the email address associated with […]

AWS Organizations Now Supports Self-Service Removal of Accounts from an Organization

August 24, 2020: We’ve updated this post to reflect changes to the requirements for removing an account from an organization. Today, AWS Organizations made it easier for you to remove AWS accounts from an organization. You can remove accounts from an organization without requiring assistance from AWS Support, and the accounts you remove can operate […]