[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"cheat-sheet---en":3,"domain-info---en":3,"topic-info----en":3,"lesson-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-billing-pricing-and-support-billing-and-cost-management-cost-management-tools-en":4,"prev-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-billing-pricing-and-support-billing-and-cost-management-cost-management-tools-en":20,"next-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-billing-pricing-and-support-billing-and-cost-management-cost-management-tools-en":305},null,{"locked":5,"reason":6,"meta":7,"item":3},true,"paywall",{"title":8,"description":9,"isFree":10,"estimatedMinutes":11,"difficulty":12,"learningObjectives":13},"AWS Cost Management Tools","Tour the main AWS tools for seeing, analyzing, and controlling cost: the Billing and Cost Management console, Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, the Cost and Usage Report, and Cost Anomaly Detection.",false,16,"beginner",[14,15,16,17,18,19],"Identify the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and what the Bills page shows","Explain what AWS Cost Explorer is used for, including its history and forecast ranges","Describe how AWS Budgets tracks spending and sends alerts","Explain what the AWS Cost and Usage Report provides and how it differs from Cost Explorer","Describe how AWS Cost Anomaly Detection finds unexpected spend","Match each cost tool to whether it looks at the past, the present, or the future",{"locked":10,"reason":3,"meta":21,"item":31},{"title":22,"description":23,"isFree":5,"estimatedMinutes":24,"difficulty":12,"learningObjectives":25},"AWS Organizations and Consolidated Billing","Learn how AWS Organizations groups many AWS accounts under one management account, and how consolidated billing gives you a single bill plus shared volume and reservation discounts.",15,[26,27,28,29,30],"Define AWS Organizations and its core parts: the management account, member accounts, the root, and organizational units","Explain the role of the management account as the payer for the whole organization","Describe the four benefits of consolidated billing","Explain how combined usage shares volume discounts, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans across accounts","Compare the consolidated-billing-only feature set with the all-features feature set",{"id":32,"title":22,"body":33,"description":23,"difficulty":12,"estimatedMinutes":24,"extension":240,"infographics":241,"isFree":5,"learningObjectives":249,"meta":250,"navigation":5,"path":251,"quiz":252,"seo":302,"stem":303,"__hash__":304},"courses/courses/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/en/domains/04-billing-pricing-and-support/02-billing-and-cost-management/01-aws-organizations-and-consolidated-billing.md",{"type":34,"value":35,"toc":229},"minimark",[36,41,45,48,52,55,58,87,92,95,99,102,147,150,153,157,160,186,189,192,196,199,202,206],[37,38,40],"h2",{"id":39},"why-grouping-accounts-matters","Why grouping accounts matters",[42,43,44],"p",{},"Most organizations do not run everything in a single AWS account. They split workloads across many accounts: one for production, one for testing, separate accounts per team or per project. Separate accounts give you a clean security boundary and a clear cost boundary, but they create a new problem. Who pays all those bills, and how do you see the total in one place?",[42,46,47],{},"AWS Organizations answers that. It lets you group many AWS accounts under central management and bill them together. This lesson covers what an organization is made of and how consolidated billing turns many accounts into one bill, often at a lower total cost.",[37,49,51],{"id":50},"what-aws-organizations-is","What AWS Organizations is",[42,53,54],{},"AWS Organizations is a free service for centrally managing multiple AWS accounts. You collect your accounts into an organization, arrange them in a tree, and manage billing and policies from the top.",[42,56,57],{},"An organization is built from a few parts:",[59,60,61,69,75,81],"ul",{},[62,63,64,68],"li",{},[65,66,67],"strong",{},"Management account",": the account you use to create the organization. It owns the organization and acts as the payer account, responsible for paying all charges across every account. There is exactly one, and you cannot change which account it is.",[62,70,71,74],{},[65,72,73],{},"Member account",": any other account that belongs to the organization. A member account can belong to only one organization at a time.",[62,76,77,80],{},[65,78,79],{},"Root",": the top container in the hierarchy. AWS creates it automatically. Everything else sits under the root.",[62,82,83,86],{},[65,84,85],{},"Organizational unit (OU)",": a group of accounts under the root. OUs can be nested, so you can group accounts by department, environment, or workload and apply the same controls to all of them at once.",[88,89],"infographic",{"alt":90,"slug":91},"A tree diagram of AWS Organizations showing the management account holding the root at the top, organizational units below it, and member accounts grouped inside the units.","aws-organizations-structure",[42,93,94],{},"You add accounts in two ways: create brand-new member accounts from the management account, or invite existing standalone accounts to join. An invitation is a handshake the other account accepts.",[37,96,98],{"id":97},"the-two-feature-sets","The two feature sets",[42,100,101],{},"When you create an organization, you choose one of two feature sets. This choice decides how much the organization can do.",[103,104,105,121],"table",{},[106,107,108],"thead",{},[109,110,111,115,118],"tr",{},[112,113,114],"th",{},"Feature set",[112,116,117],{},"What you get",[112,119,120],{},"When to choose it",[122,123,124,136],"tbody",{},[109,125,126,130,133],{},[127,128,129],"td",{},"Consolidated billing",[127,131,132],{},"Shared billing only: one bill, combined usage, shared discounts",[127,134,135],{},"You only need unified billing across accounts",[109,137,138,141,144],{},[127,139,140],{},"All features",[127,142,143],{},"Everything in consolidated billing plus central policies, service control policies, and AWS service integrations",[127,145,146],{},"You want central governance and security controls, not just billing",[42,148,149],{},"All features is the default and the recommended choice, because it adds governance tools like service control policies (SCPs), which set guardrails on what member accounts can do. If you start with consolidated billing only, you can upgrade to all features later, but every invited member account has to approve the change.",[42,151,152],{},"For the exam, remember the split: consolidated billing is billing only; all features adds the management and policy controls on top.",[37,154,156],{"id":155},"how-consolidated-billing-works","How consolidated billing works",[42,158,159],{},"Consolidated billing is the feature that combines the charges of every account in the organization into a single bill paid by the management account. AWS lists four benefits:",[59,161,162,168,174,180],{},[62,163,164,167],{},[65,165,166],{},"One bill",": you get a single bill that covers multiple accounts instead of one invoice per account.",[62,169,170,173],{},[65,171,172],{},"Easy tracking",": you can track charges across all accounts and download the combined cost and usage data.",[62,175,176,179],{},[65,177,178],{},"Combined usage",": usage is added together across accounts, which shares volume pricing discounts, Reserved Instance discounts, and Savings Plans across the whole organization.",[62,181,182,185],{},[65,183,184],{},"No extra fee",": consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost.",[42,187,188],{},"The combined usage benefit is the one that saves real money. AWS prices many services in tiers where the unit cost drops as you use more. When usage from all accounts is added together, you reach those cheaper tiers faster than any single account would on its own. The same pooling applies to reservations: if one account buys a Reserved Instance or a Savings Plan and does not fully use it, the unused benefit can apply to matching usage in another account in the organization.",[42,190,191],{},"Member account bills still exist, but they are informational only. The management account is what actually pays, and it can see a combined view of all charges as well as a per-account cost report.",[37,193,195],{"id":194},"a-note-on-account-separation","A note on account separation",[42,197,198],{},"Using multiple accounts is a best practice, not a workaround. Each account is a natural boundary for both cost and security. You can tell exactly what a team or project spends because its resources live in its own account, and a problem in one account is isolated from the others. Consolidated billing lets you keep that separation while still paying one bill and sharing discounts.",[42,200,201],{},"A common recommendation is to keep the management account clean. Run your actual workloads in member accounts and reserve the management account for organization-level tasks. This keeps its invoice simple and avoids mixing org administration with day-to-day resources.",[37,203,205],{"id":204},"exam-tips","Exam tips",[59,207,208,211,214,217,220,223,226],{},[62,209,210],{},"AWS Organizations lets you centrally manage many AWS accounts and is free to use.",[62,212,213],{},"The management account is the payer account; it pays all charges for the organization. There is only one, and you cannot change which account it is.",[62,215,216],{},"Member accounts belong to one organization at a time. Their individual bills are informational only.",[62,218,219],{},"Organizational units (OUs) group accounts and can be nested; the root is the top of the tree.",[62,221,222],{},"The four consolidated billing benefits: one bill, easy tracking, combined usage (shared volume, Reserved Instance, and Savings Plans discounts), and no extra fee.",[62,224,225],{},"Two feature sets: consolidated billing (billing only) and all features (adds SCPs and service integrations). All features is the default and recommended.",[62,227,228],{},"Combined usage across accounts can lower cost by reaching volume tiers sooner and sharing reservations.",{"title":230,"searchDepth":231,"depth":231,"links":232},"",3,[233,235,236,237,238,239],{"id":39,"depth":234,"text":40},2,{"id":50,"depth":234,"text":51},{"id":97,"depth":234,"text":98},{"id":155,"depth":234,"text":156},{"id":194,"depth":234,"text":195},{"id":204,"depth":234,"text":205},"md",[242],{"slug":91,"concept":243,"style":244,"aspectRatio":245,"labels":246},"AWS Organizations hierarchy as a tree: a single management account at the top holding the root, organizational units grouping member accounts below it, with the management account labeled as the payer","diagram","16:9",[247,79,248,73],"Management account (payer)","Organizational unit",[26,27,28,29,30],{},"/courses/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/en/domains/04-billing-pricing-and-support/02-billing-and-cost-management/01-aws-organizations-and-consolidated-billing",{"passingScore":253,"questions":254},70,[255,264,274,280,288,296],{"question":256,"type":257,"options":258,"correctAnswer":260,"explanation":263},"In AWS Organizations, which account pays the charges for every account in the organization?","single",[259,260,261,262],"Each member account pays its own charges separately","The management account","AWS Support pays and invoices you later","The first member account that was created","Every organization has one management account, also called the payer account, that is responsible for paying all charges accrued across the organization. Member account bills are informational only.",{"question":265,"type":266,"options":267,"correctAnswers":272,"explanation":273},"Which of the following are benefits of consolidated billing? (Select all that apply.)","multiple",[268,269,270,271],"One bill that covers multiple accounts","Combined usage that shares volume, Reserved Instance, and Savings Plans discounts","Easy tracking and download of combined cost and usage data","A built-in discount on AWS Support that doubles your service quotas",[268,269,270],"Consolidated billing gives you one bill, easy tracking, combined usage for shared discounts, and no extra fee. It does not change your service quotas or grant a Support discount.",{"question":275,"type":257,"options":276,"correctAnswer":278,"explanation":279},"Consolidated billing in AWS Organizations costs an extra monthly fee.",[277,278],"True","False","Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost. You pay only for the AWS resources your accounts use, and grouping them does not add a fee.",{"question":281,"type":257,"options":282,"correctAnswer":284,"explanation":287},"Why can combining accounts under one organization lower your total cost?",[283,284,285,286],"AWS halves the price of every service inside an organization","Usage is added together across accounts, so you reach volume pricing tiers sooner and can share Reserved Instances and Savings Plans","Member accounts stop being billed once they join","The management account gets free compute for the first year","Consolidated billing aggregates usage across all accounts. That combined volume can push you into cheaper tiers and lets unused Reserved Instance and Savings Plans benefits apply to other accounts, lowering the overall charge.",{"question":289,"type":257,"options":290,"correctAnswer":291,"explanation":295},"What is an organizational unit (OU) in AWS Organizations?",[291,292,293,294],"A group of AWS accounts within an organization, which can be nested to build a hierarchy","A single IAM user shared across accounts","A billing report exported as a CSV file","The physical data center where your accounts run","An OU groups AWS accounts so you can apply the same controls to a subset of them. OUs can contain other OUs, letting you build a tree that matches your departments or environments.",{"question":297,"type":257,"options":298,"correctAnswer":129,"explanation":301},"A company only wants a single bill across its accounts and does not need policy controls like service control policies. Which feature set fits?",[140,129,299,300],"Member-only mode","Root access mode","The consolidated billing feature set provides shared billing without the advanced management features. All features adds SCPs and service integrations on top of consolidated billing, and you can upgrade to it later.",{"title":22,"description":23},"courses/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/en/domains/04-billing-pricing-and-support/02-billing-and-cost-management/01-aws-organizations-and-consolidated-billing","jfOpaH1TImVBiYBplU83tsUkw3Cv8M25g_oX554WPpk",{"locked":5,"reason":6,"meta":306,"item":3},{"title":307,"description":308,"isFree":10,"estimatedMinutes":309,"difficulty":12,"learningObjectives":310},"Cost Allocation Tags","See how tags label your AWS resources so you can break a single bill down by team, project, or environment, and learn the difference between AWS-generated and user-defined cost allocation tags.",14,[311,312,313,314],"Define a tag as a key-value label applied to an AWS resource","Explain how cost allocation tags break a bill down by team, project, or environment","Compare AWS-generated tags with user-defined tags, including their prefixes","Describe how tags are activated in the Billing console and the rules that apply"]