AWS Account Structures

Question 1

Business Unit (BU) Account Structure

Answer 1

customers who want to align their AWS with individual BUs. Individual units have operational autonomy while providing a combined view of all AWS charges, separated by group, OU, or cost center

Question 2

Environment Lifecycle account structure

Answer 2

customers who want to align AWS with their application development lifecycle. offers dev life-cycle operational autonomy while providing a corp with a single bill and combined view of all AWS charges, separated by dev environment.

Question 3

Project-based account structure

Answer 3

customers who want to align AWS by product, application workload, or program. project or workload autonomy while providing corp. with single view and separated by project. Also simplifies ability to trigger cost based alerts by project, app workload or program consumption of AWS resources

Question 4

Hybrid AWS Account Structures

Answer 4

larger aws companies find advantages to create hybrid that group accounts by multiple dimensions

Question 5

Consolidated billing for orgs

Answer 5

consolidate payment for mult aws accounts. combined view of AWS charges by all accounts also can get cost report by member. No additional charge

Question 6

Resource Tagging

Answer 6

track expenses throughout the model by Owner, cost center/business unit, customer, project. Createdby is another optional tag.