Why account management matters in AWS - See It in Action

Why Account Management Matters in AWS

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud administrator for a small company. The company wants to organize its AWS resources properly to keep things secure and easy to manage. You will create a simple AWS account structure using AWS Organizations to separate billing and permissions.

🎯 Goal: Build a basic AWS Organizations setup with a master account and two member accounts named Development and Production. This will help the company manage accounts securely and clearly.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a master AWS Organization account

Add two member accounts named Development and Production

Assign a tag Environment with values Dev and Prod to the member accounts

Enable consolidated billing for all accounts

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Companies use AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts securely and efficiently, separating environments like development and production.

💼 Career

Cloud administrators and architects must understand account management to control costs, permissions, and security in cloud environments.

1

Create the AWS Organization master account

Create a variable called master_account and assign it the string value 'MasterAccount' to represent the AWS Organization master account.

AWS

# Create a variable called master_account with value 'MasterAccount'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Think of the master account as the main folder that holds all other accounts.

2

Define member accounts for Development and Production

Create a dictionary called member_accounts with two keys: 'Development' and 'Production'. Assign each key a dictionary with a single key 'Environment' and values 'Dev' for Development and 'Prod' for Production.

AWS

master_account = 'MasterAccount'
# Create member_accounts dictionary with Development and Production keys and Environment tags
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a dictionary inside a dictionary to store account names and their environment tags.

3

Enable consolidated billing for all accounts

Create a variable called consolidated_billing_enabled and set it to True to indicate that billing is consolidated under the master account.

AWS

master_account = 'MasterAccount'
member_accounts = {
    'Development': {'Environment': 'Dev'},
    'Production': {'Environment': 'Prod'}
}
# Enable consolidated billing
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Setting this to true means all accounts pay through the master account.

4

Summarize the AWS Organization setup

Create a dictionary called aws_organization with keys 'MasterAccount', 'MemberAccounts', and 'Billing'. Assign master_account to 'MasterAccount', member_accounts to 'MemberAccounts', and consolidated_billing_enabled to 'Billing'.

AWS

master_account = 'MasterAccount'
member_accounts = {
    'Development': {'Environment': 'Dev'},
    'Production': {'Environment': 'Prod'}
}
consolidated_billing_enabled = True
# Create aws_organization dictionary summarizing the setup
# Your code here

Need a hint?

This dictionary shows the full AWS Organization setup in one place.