Adopting Cloud Organization

As an organization grows its needs change so as its cloud infrastructure. With the presence of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) a role, user account or even temporary access to a resource on an account level this would be the best fit, as more and more accounts are added it becomes harder to manage.

Aws provides a solution that centrally manages all the and yet to be added aws accounts providing a different features based on a hierarchy approach to enable you to

1.Apply policies to standardize tags used in by accounts in the organization

1. configure automatic backups for the resources in your organization's accounts

3.Enhance policy implementation with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

With this you are able to

1.Centrally manage all your AWS Accounts

1. Consolidated billing for all member accounts
2. Integrate with other AWS services
3. integrating with AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning services to collect and store data.

with a single endpoint AWS Organization is not region specific and can be access in any AWS region making it fault tolerant. It is also browser based, requiring no application installation.

It provides access through

1. AWS Command Line Tools i.e a). AWS CLI https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
   b). AWS Tools for powershell
   https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/
   The above links provide the relevant documentation to get started.

2. AWS software development kit
   They consist of libraries and sample code for various programming languages and platforms
   To check your desired programming language is supported check
   https://aws.amazon.com/tools/#sdk

3. AWS Organization HTTP Query API
   The HTTPS Query API provides one HTTPS requests directly to the service.
   To learn more on Organization HTTP query API
   https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/API Reference/

This is one of the essential tools that any sysops Administrator and other governance stakeholders using AWS cloud implement.
for more understanding on AWS organization visit
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_introduction.html
for a full coverage of the service
this article is authored by
Sospeter Gathungu