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 of AWS Organizations.

Here you can see a high-level diagram of the relationships between master accounts, members, and organizational units (OUs):

We deliberately enable all the features of organizations. The consolidated billing option is available for backward compatibility—before organizations, consolidated billing was your only option to link accounts.

The master account will always have a star next to its name.