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Attend This Free April 27 Tech Talk—Applying AWS Organizations to Complex Account Structures

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Monthly Online Tech Talks series, AWS will present Applying AWS Organizations to Complex Account Structures on Thursday, April 27. This tech talk will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Principal Product Manager Anders Samuelsson […]

The New AWS Organizations User Interface Makes Managing Your AWS Accounts Easier

With AWS Organizations—launched on February 27, 2017—you can easily organize accounts centrally and set organizational policies across a set of accounts. Starting today, the Organizations console includes a tree view that allows you to manage accounts and organizational units (OUs) easily. The new view also makes it simple to attach service control policies (SCPs) to individual […]

How to Use Service Control Policies in AWS Organizations to Enforce Healthcare Compliance in Your AWS Account

AWS customers with healthcare compliance requirements such as the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Good Laboratory, Clinical, and Manufacturing Practices (GxP) might want to control access to the AWS services their developers use to build and operate their GxP and HIPAA systems. For example, customers with GxP requirements might approve AWS […]

Now Generally Available – AWS Organizations: Policy-Based Management for Multiple AWS Accounts

Over the years, we have found that many of our customers are managing multiple AWS accounts. Instead of dealing with a multitude of per-team, per-division, or per-application accounts, our customers have asked for a way to define access control policies that can be easily applied to all, some, or individual accounts. In many cases, these […]

Announcing AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts

Today, AWS launched AWS Organizations: a new way for you to centrally manage all the AWS accounts your organization owns. Now you can arrange your AWS accounts into groups called organizational units (OUs) and apply policies to OUs or directly to accounts. For example, you can organize your accounts by application, environment, team, or any […]