AWS Organizations

Score9 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is AWS Organizations?

AWS Organizations helps users centrally govern an environment as the organization grows, and scale workloads on AWS. Using AWS Organizations, users can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance.

Categories & Use Cases

Identity Management

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ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
The ability to login to the system once, gaining access to all systems without the need for logging in again
Category average: 9
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
Capabilities for creating user accounts based on roles, group memberships and business processes
Category average: 8.5
ID-Management Access Control
Authorization or restriction of access to information depending on role
Category average: 8.8

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using AWS Organizations.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

27.0%

312 installations of 1,157

#2 most frequent

Information

20.9%

242 installations of 1,157

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

14.2%

164 installations of 1,157

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Brings all AWS organizations under one management structure for billing
Simplified management of user access with AWS SSO
Centralized reporting

Cons

Could include cross organization IAM management
Could allow quick login access to other organizations like the AWS SSO homepage

Return on Investment

AWS Organizations allow for quick user access when paired with AWS SSO and SAML groups.
AWS Organizations does not use IAM users and there is an initial cost in time to set up AWS SSO.

Other Software Used

Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS CloudTrail

AWS Organizations

What is AWS Organizations?

Categories & Use Cases

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