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AWS Administration Cookbook

By : Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
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AWS Administration Cookbook

By: Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces (API). Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This book will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We’ll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you’ll build the foundation for the recipes you’ll work on throughout the book. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You will then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you will find out how to use the compute service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and autoscale an application server. Next, you’ll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You will also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs for your cloud. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily administer your AWS cloud.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up a master account


All accounts that use AWS Organizations for billing and control purposes must have a master account. This account controls membership to the organization, and pays the bills of all the members (someone's got to do it).

How to do it...

To set up a master account, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the My Organization section of the account you want to become the master. You must be logged in with your root credentials (that is, those you created the account with):
  1. In the AWS Organizations section of the AWS console, click on Create organization, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Unless you have a specific requirement, choose ENABLE ALL FEATURES to get the full benefit of organizations, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Now that your account has been converted, you can return to the AWS Organizations page to see a list of all your accounts:

How it works...

While this is a very simple recipe, it's the first thing you must do before you can use any of the useful features...