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Adding accounts and permission policies to an AWS Organization

Eugen Hoble
6 min readDec 23, 2023

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This tutorial assumes that you already have an AWS account with an organization. If that’s not the case then go here to learn how to create an AWS Free Tier account.

After an AWS account is created and the organization added, the account page, should look like the one below

Next, we add an account to the organization. We can add an existing account or create a new account as part of the organization.

For details how to add an existing account to the organization, go here.

Now, let’s create a member account. In the AWS accounts page, choose Add an AWS Account button.

For AWS account name, enter a name for the account, such as MyApp Account.

For Email address of the account’s root user, enter the email address of the individual who is to receive communications on behalf of the account. This value must be globally unique. No two accounts can have the same email address. For…

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