What do AWS organizations use to group AWS accounts?

This section specifies quotas that affect AWS Organizations.

Naming guidelines

The following are guidelines for names that you create in AWS Organizations, including names of accounts, organizational units (OUs), roots, and policies:

  • They must be composed of Unicode characters

  • Maximum string length for names vary by the object. To see actual limit for each, see the AWS Organizations API Reference and find the API operation that creates the object. Look at the details for that operation's Name parameter. For example: Account name, or OU name.

Maximum and minimum values

The following are the default maximums for entities in AWS Organizations.

You can request increases for some of these values by using the Service Quotas console.

Organizations is a global service that is physically hosted in the US East (N. Virginia) Region (us-east-1). Therefore, you must use us-east-1 to access Organizations quotas when using the Service Quotas console, the AWS CLI, or an AWS SDK.

Number of AWS accounts in an organization

10 — The default maximum number of accounts allowed in an organization. If you need more, you can request an increase by using the Service Quotas console.

An invitation sent to an account counts against this quota. The count is returned if the invited account declines, the management account cancels the invitation, or the invitation expires.

Number of roots in an organization

1

Number of OUs in an organization

1000

Number of policies of each type in an organization

1000 per policy type

Maximum size of a policy document

Service control policies: 5120 bytes (not characters)

AI services opt-out policies: 2500 characters

Backup policies: 10,000 characters

Tag policies: 10,000 characters

Note: If you save the policy by using the AWS Management Console, extra white space (such as spaces and line breaks) between JSON elements and outside of quotation marks, is removed and not counted. If you save the policy using an SDK operation or the AWS CLI, then the policy is saved exactly as you provided and no automatic removal of characters occurs.

OU maximum nesting in a root

Five levels of OUs deep under a root.

Maximum number of invitation attempts you can perform in a 24-hour period

Either 20 or the maximum number of accounts allowed in your organization, whichever is greater. Accepted invitations don't count against this quota. As soon as one invitation is accepted, you can send another invitation that same day.

If the maximum number of accounts allowed in your organization is less than 20, then you get an "account limit exceeded" exception if you attempt to invite more accounts than your organization can contain. However, you can cancel invitations and send new ones up to the maximum of 20 attempts in one day.

Number of member accounts you can create concurrently

5 — As soon as one finishes, you can start another, but only five can be in progress at a time.

Number of member accounts you can close in a 30 day period 10% of active member accounts in an organization can be closed within a 30 day period. The maximum account closure is 200, even if 10% active accounts exceeds 200.
Number of member accounts you can close concurrently 3 — Only three account closures can be in progress at the same time. As soon as one finishes, you can close another account.

Number of entities to which you can attach a policy

Unlimited

Number of tags that you can attach to a root, OU, or account

50

Expiration times for handshakes

The following are the timeouts for handshakes in AWS Organizations.

Invitation to join an organization

15 days

Request to enable all features in an organization

90 days

Handshake is deleted and no longer appears in lists

30 days after the handshake is completed

Number of policies that you can attach to an entity

The minimum and maximum depend on the policy type and the entity that you're attaching the policy to. The following table shows each policy type and the number of entities that you can attach each type to.

These numbers apply to only those policies that are directly attached to an OU or an account. Policies that affect an OU or account by inheritance do not count against these limits.

Policy typeMinimum attached to an entityMaximum attached to rootMaximum attached per OUMaximum attached per account
Service control policy 1 — Every entity must have at least one SCP attached at all times. You can't remove the last SCP from an entity. 5 5 5
AI services opt-out policy 0 5 5 5
Backup policy 0 10 10 10
Tag policy 0 10 10 10

Currently, you can have only one root in an organization.

What service can be used to consolidate multiple AWS accounts?

AWS Organizations is an account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

Can AWS organizations help you manage multiple AWS accounts?

AWS Organizations provides you with the ability to centrally manage your environment across multiple accounts. You can create and organize accounts in an organization, consolidate costs, and apply policies for custom environments.

Which tools would you use to govern multiple AWS accounts?

AWS Control Tower simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization.

What is organization account in AWS?

AWS Organizations is an account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. With Organizations, you can create member accounts and invite existing accounts to join your organization.