Overview

With Organizations, you can manage multiple accounts and their permissions in your organization and organizational units (OUs). This section helps you understand:

Why do I need to create an organization?
How do I consolidate multiple accounts into an organization?
How do I control permissions of member accounts in my organization?

Example Scenario

Suppose a company has two departments to manage: R&D and Finance. The R&D department has two teams: Development Team and O&M Team. Figure 1 shows the company's organizational structure.

Figure 1 Company's organizational structure

The company, the finance dept, development team, and the O&M team each have an account, as shown in Table 1.

**Table 1** Account details
Entity	Account Name
Company	Company A
Finance Dept.	Account x
Development Team	Account y
O&M Team	Account z

The company intends to use Company A as the management account to:

Group accounts into OUs based on the company structure for centralized management.
Attach different policies to OUs for permissions management. For example, they can grant permissions only to employees in the R&D dept., allowing them to add or delete assignments by using Config.

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