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Glossary term

Organizational unit

A grouping container in a cloud provider's account hierarchy, such as an AWS Organizations OU. Hierarchy enables policy inheritance, which is what makes governance tractable at scale.

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T3 / M3.4 / L2 AWS Organizations, GCP Folders, Azure Management Groups

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