From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
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Consolidated billing
From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
Consolidated billing
- [Instructor] When a company embraces the cloud and all of the infrastructure engineering teams happily pounce on to AWS and begin building, a single company may end up with multiple AWS accounts. Maybe the development team wants to split up their production and test environments so there won't be any accidental deployments. Or maybe the marketing team wants their own instance for the company website. Other times, it just might make sense for different projects to open different accounts to keep their billing responsibilities apparent. Whatever the reason may be, having multiple AWS accounts is likely a huge headache for the accounting team when they need to keep track of all the accounts and numbers. To make their lives easier, AWS introduces the consolidated billing option. As the name suggests, it allows an organization to create a payer account that views and pays combined billing charges for all linked accounts. It is strictly an accounting and billing account and can't use any…
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