Ensure Organizations has organizational units (OUs) structured appropriately
OU structure should reflect security and compliance requirements, enabling policy application by workload type or environment.
Security Impact
Flat OU structure limits ability to apply differentiated policies based on account purpose and risk.
How to Remediate
Design OU structure based on security zones (e.g., Production, Development, Sandbox) and apply appropriate SCPs to each.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-organizations-11
- Service
- AWS Organizations
- Category
- Governance
- Severity
- LOW
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