Consolidated billing

AWS Organizations is an account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. AWS Organizations includes consolidated billing and account management capabilities that enable you to better meet the budgetary, security, and compliance needs of your business. For more information, see What Is AWS Organizations?

For more information on consolidated bills and how they are calculated, see Understanding Consolidated Bills.

The pricing benefits of Reserved Instances are shared when the purchasing account is billed under a consolidated billing payer account. The instance usage across all member accounts is aggregated in the payer account every month. This is useful for companies that have different functional teams or groups, then, the normal Reserved Instance logic is applied to calculate the bill.