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Accounts Structure

Multi-account strategy with AWS Organizations for isolation, security, and cost management. This layout separates management, shared services, and workload environments so governance stays centralized while teams still operate inside clear account boundaries. It provides the structural foundation for scaling access, networking, security, and software delivery without collapsing everything into one shared AWS account.

Problems this Architecture solves​

  • Reduces the blast radius that comes from running shared services and workloads in the same AWS account.
  • Creates clear ownership boundaries between foundational services, lower environments, and production workloads.
  • Centralizes governance, billing, and guardrails so multi-account growth stays manageable over time.

Organization Overview​

Hierarchical AWS Organization structure with Organizational Units and account hierarchy.

Accounts structure diagram showing the AWS organization layout and account relationships.