AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 542

Which AWS service gives users the ability to combine existing accounts into a centrally managed hierarchy?

Answer options

• A. AWS Organizations
• B. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• C. AWS Config
• D. Amazon Inspector

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS Organizations is specifically designed to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organizational hierarchy for centralized management, billing, and policy enforcement. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) manages access control within individual accounts rather than managing multi-account hierarchies. AWS Config and Amazon Inspector are used for compliance auditing and vulnerability scanning respectively, and do not handle account consolidation.