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  3. Section XII. Cloud
  4. Configuration for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  5. Link AWS accounts for Collection of consolidated billing data

Link AWS accounts for Collection of consolidated billing data

Some large organizations create separate AWS accounts for different cost centers and then link these accounts to a Payer Account. In this case, the billing records for all of these accounts are accumulated in the billing records for the Payer Account. If you want to have a single AWS IAM user to collect these billing records and all other information about EC2 and S3 buckets, you will need to grant the user cross-account API access. By linking accounts, you establish a trust relationship between the accounts.

Ensure that the account used in AWS policy has the user access privilege to perform call to the describeOrganization API

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