Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables customers to achieve significant gains in productivity, innovation, and cost reduction when they move to the AWS cloud. AWS offers a variety of services and features that allow for flexible control of cloud computing resources and also of the AWS account(s) managing those resources. These options help to ensure proper cost allocation, agility, and security, however customers are sometimes unsure of how to best implement an account strategy—especially when working with multiple AWS accounts. This webpage provides customers with account-level considerations, best practices, and high-level strategic guidance to help customers use AWS Organizations to structure and manage multiple AWS accounts for billing purposes. For information about organizing multiple accounts for security purposes, see the

The following sections assume basic knowledge of AWS Organizations, AWS service limits, resource groups and tagging, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Reserved Instances (RIs).