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AWS Organizations
Managing policies in AWS Organizations
Policies in AWS Organizations enable you to apply additional types of management to the AWS accounts in your organization. You can use policies when in your organization.
The AWS Organizations console displays the enabled or disabled status for each policy type. On the Organize accounts tab, choose the Root in the left navigation pane. The details pane on the right side of the screen shows all of the available policy types. The list indicates which are enabled and which are disabled in that organization root. If the option to Enable a type is present, that type is currently disabled. If the option to Disable a type is present, that type is currently enabled.
Policy types
Organizations offers policy types in the following two broad categories:
Authorization policies
Authorization policies help you to centrally manage the security of the AWS accounts in your organization.
Management policies
Management policies enable you to centrally configure and manage AWS services and their features.
The following table summarizes some of the characteristics of each policy type. For additional characteristics about these policy types, see .
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