Workloads OU

The Workloads OU is intended to house most of your business-specific workloads including both production and non-production environments. These workloads can be a mix of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications and your own internally developed custom applications and data services.

Workloads in this OU often include shared application and data services that are used by other workloads.

Example structure

The following example represents a basic structure in which sets of workloads owned by diverse business units or teams reside in two child OUs: Prod and Test. In this example, a common governance and operating model applies across those areas. The data-lake-prod account shown in this example contains data services that are shared with other production workloads and accounts.

For general guidance on separating production and non-production workloads and resources, refer to Organizing workload-oriented OUs.

Example structure of Workloads OU