12. AWS Organizations & Consolidate Billing

AWS Organizations: AWS Organizations is an account management service that enables to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that we create and centrally manage.

Advantages of Consolidate Billing:
i) One bill per AWS account
ii) Very easy to track charges and allocate costs
iii) Volume pricing discount

Recap:
i) Paying (root) account should be used for billing purposes only. Do not deploy resources into the paying account.
ii) Enable/ Disable AWS services using Service Control Policies (SCP) either on OU or on individual accounts.