Basic organization - Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts

Basic organization

The following example incorporates a security tooling environment for common security services, a second workload, and support for sandbox and development environments. Additions include:

  • A Sandbox OU to contain a series of disconnected sandbox environment accounts.

  • An additional workload in the form of workload-b-prod, workload-b-test, and workload-b-dev accounts.

  • A Dev OU under the Workloads OU to contain development environment accounts associated with the workloads.


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Example basic organization with multiple workloads

Basic organization with infrastructure services

This example includes support for common infrastructure resources. The additions include:

  • An Infrastructure OU and accounts containing a Prod OU.

  • A network-prod account to contain resources required to connect VPCs in the workload accounts to your on-premises network. For example, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, and AWS Direct Connect resources.

  • A shared-infra-prod account to contain common shared infrastructure services to be used by other accounts. For example, Amazon RouteĀ 53 resolver endpoints.


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            services.

Example basic organization with infrastructure services

Basic organization with CI/CD as a separate function

This example incorporates support for CI/CD resources that are used to validate changes to their respective workloads and automate deployments to the test and production workload environments. The additions include:

  • A Deployments OU and a child Prod OU.

  • A set of workload-a-cicd-prod and workload-b-cid-prod accounts to contain the production quality CI/CD resources for each of the respective workloads.


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Example basic organization with CI/CD