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# AWS Organizations

As the name suggests, it is used to organize different AWS Accounts (which can be used by different departments in a company) to have consolidated billing and gives the flexibility for different departments to have different policies:

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By default, when one goes to AWS Organizations menu, the context can be as shown below:

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Now, one can create an OU and then create an account under it:

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