Use cases

The following are example use cases for using this solution. You can apply this solution in innovative ways that are not limited to this list.

Mergers or acquisitions

If you are undergoing a merger or acquisition, you may need to move AWS accounts between multiple AWS Organizations and Organizational Units (OUs) while maintaining existing production workloads and avoiding downtime.

Security audits

If you are undergoing a security audit, you might want further insight into your AWS accounts, policies, trust relationships, and activated AWS services.

Centralized Policy Explorer

To evaluate policy compliance and identify security threats, search for actions, resources, effects, or principles. Use this feature to search, filter, review, and identify the policies in your AWS Organization. You can also choose to download the list for sharing purposes.

Management account change

If you plan to create a new account as your management account and change the existing management account into a member account (for example, if you have production workloads in your management account), you might want visibility into the management account’s existing policies.