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AWS organizations

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- [Instructor] AWS Organizations is a relatively new service. It allows for policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts and importantly, it allows for consolidated billing. I can see this having a great utility in situations where you have separate AWS accounts for different environments such as one for dev, one for test, one for stage, and one for production. I actually had this in a recent IoT scenario because in the case of IoT, there's only one endpoint for the IoT broker for each Amazon account. We didn't want to clutter up the prod with the other messages as we were developing the product. I'm sure there'll be other scenarios for which this is useful. We actually really could have used this a year and a half ago when I was working on this project. I'm really happy to see the service be available. It also allows for automated account creation. Now you can see in the diagram here that there are some concepts around organizations. I recommend that you read the documentation…

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