As companies grow, they often create separate AWS accounts for different teams or projects. Managing billing for all these accounts can become complex.
AWS Organizations is a service that helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources.
Engagement Message
What is one problem that could arise from each team having its own separate bill?
A key feature of AWS Organizations is consolidated billing. You can group multiple AWS accounts into one organization and receive a single, unified bill.
This greatly simplifies accounting and allows you to get a clear overview of the spending across your entire company.
Engagement Message
How might consolidated billing help a company's finance department?
Consolidated billing also helps you save money. AWS combines the usage from all your accounts to qualify you for volume pricing discounts faster.
If one account uses 5 TB of storage and another uses 5 TB, you're billed at the 10 TB pricing tier for both, which is cheaper per gigabyte.
Engagement Message
Why is it smart for cloud providers to offer volume discounts?
AWS Organizations also allows you to implement controls. With Service Control Policies (SCPs), you can restrict which AWS services users in an account can access.
For example, you could prevent a development account from launching very large, expensive server types to control costs.
Engagement Message
What is one service you might want to restrict in a training account?
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Multiple Choice
Practice Question
Which statement best describes the primary cost benefit of using consolidated billing with AWS Organizations?
A. It eliminates all AWS service charges for one month. B. It combines usage across all accounts to reach volume discount tiers faster. C. It prevents teams from using any paid AWS services without approval. D. It automatically shuts down unused resources across all accounts.
