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AWS Organizations

5 CloudFormation resource types available for Organizations.

Account

AWS::Organizations::Account

You can use AWS::Organizations::Account to manage accounts in organization.

Organization

AWS::Organizations::Organization

Resource schema for AWS::Organizations::Organization

OrganizationalUnit

AWS::Organizations::OrganizationalUnit

You can use organizational units (OUs) to group accounts together to administer as a single unit. This greatly simplifies the management of your accounts. For example, you can attach a policy-based co

Policy

AWS::Organizations::Policy

Policies in AWS Organizations enable you to manage different features of the AWS accounts in your organization. You can use policies when all features are enabled in your organization.

ResourcePolicy

AWS::Organizations::ResourcePolicy

You can use AWS::Organizations::ResourcePolicy to delegate policy management for AWS Organizations to specified member accounts to perform policy actions that are by default available only to the mana

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AWS::Organizations::*

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