AWS Organizations & Consolidated Billing

Question 1

What is AWS Organizations?

Answer 1

Is an account management tool that helps you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization so you can manage all together.

Question 2

What are the types of AWS Organizations?

Answer 2

AWS Consolidated Billing

AWS Organization Full Access

Question 3

What are the three best practices of AWS Organizations?

Answer 3

1. Enable MFA on root account
2. Always use strong and complex password on root account
3. Paying account should be used for billing purposes only. Do not deploy resources into the paying account

Question 4

How many linked accounts can one have in AWS Organizations?

Answer 4

20 linked accounts. To add more visit aws-account-and-billing

Question 5

What’s the difference between CloudTrail and CloudWatch?

Answer 5

CloudWatch monitors performance.

CloudTrail monitors API Calls in the AWS platform (a tool for auditing). This serves as a security camera to know exactly which user created or enabled which service

Question 6

What are the benefits of Consolidated Billing?

Answer 6

Allows you to get volume discounts on all your accounts

Question 7

What’s the scope of CloudTrail?

Answer 7

CloudTrail is a regional service, but you can aggregate into a single bucket belonging to the paying account