AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Practice Exam

What AWS service allows you to maintain infrastructure across multiple accounts easily?

1. AWS Config

2. AWS CloudTrail

3. AWS Organizations

4. AWS Service Catalog

The correct answer is: AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is designed to simplify the management of multiple AWS accounts by allowing you to create a structure that can be centrally managed. With Organizations, you can group accounts into organizational units (OUs) and apply policies for governance across those accounts. This structure enhances security, and compliance, and simplifies billing. By using AWS Organizations, you can also enable consolidated billing, which allows you to combine the usage of multiple accounts and possibly take advantage of volume discounts. Furthermore, you can apply Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce specific permissions across accounts, ensuring that governance is maintained seamlessly. On the other hand, while AWS Config tracks the configuration of your resources and AWS CloudTrail logs API calls for activities in your accounts, they do not provide the same level of account management capabilities across multiple accounts as Organizations does. AWS Service Catalog helps in managing approved products for use within an organization, but it does not facilitate the management of infrastructure across multiple accounts as effectively as AWS Organizations does.