Create an AWS account in an Organizational Unit

Abiquo lets you create accounts for your users but for an AWS organization, you may also need to manage organizational units.

In Abiquo 6.2, if your user has the Manage organizational units privilege and your AWS user has the appropriate permissions, then Abiquo lets you manage organizational units when you create an AWS account.

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Create an organization unit when creating an account

If the user does not select an organizational unit, then Abiquo will use the default, as defined by an enterprise property, or the root organizational unit.

Introduction to create accounts in AWS

Abiquo lets you create a reseller hierarchy to manage AWS partner and AWS organization accounts.

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A reseller hierarchy in Abiquo

After you create a public cloud region and add your credentials, you can create AWS accounts for your organizations.

You enter the Abiquo enterprise and the account details.

Abiquo will create the account and automatically add the account to the customer enterprise.

After you create the account, in the customer enterprise, you can also click to create a user for the AWS account and click the link to access the AWS portal.

Configure the create account feature for AWS

For the AWS permissions for this feature, see Obtain AWS credentialsin the section for Organizational units.

To set the default organizational unit, edit the enterprise and go to Properties. Create the amazon_default_organizational_unit_id enterprise property and set the value to your default organizational unit in AWS.