AWS Billing and Support Services Flashcards
Wha are AWS Organizations?
Simplified Defintion:
Organziations allow you (oryour company) to manage billing and access to multiple AWS accounts (in one user interface).
AWS Defintion:
AWS Organizations offers policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts. With Organizations, you can create groups of accounts and then apply policies to those groups. Organizations enables you to centrally manage policies accross multiple accounts, without requiring custom scripts and manual processes. Using AWS Organizations, you can create Service Control Policies (SCPs) that centrally control AWS service use across multiple AWS accounts. You can also use Organziations to help automate the creation of new accounts trhough APIs. Organizations helps simplify the billing for multiple accounts by engabling you to set up a single payment method for all the accounts in your organization through consolidated billing. AWS Organizations is available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.
What are the main features/benefits of AWS Organizations?
- Centrally manage access policies across multiple AWS accounts.
- Control access to AWS services
- Automate AWS account creation and management
- Consolidate billing across multiple AWS accounts
What is Consolidated Billing?
Simplified Definition:
Consolidated billing allows you to view, manage, and pay bills for multiple AWS accounts in one user interface.
AWS Definition:
AWS Organizations enables you to set up a single payment method for all the AWS accounts in your organization through consolidated billing. With consolidated billing, you can see a combined view of charges incurred by all your accounts, as well as take advantage of pricing benefits from aggregated usage, such as volume discounts for Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.
What are the main features/benefits of Consolidated Billing?
- Cenral locations to manage billing across all your AWS accounts.
- Gain volume discounts for usage across all your AWS accounts.
