New AWS Billing Transfer for centrally managing AWS billing and costs across multiple organizations

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Billing Transfer, a new capability to centrally manage and pay bills across multiple organizations by transferring payment responsibility to other billing administrators, such as company affiliates and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners. This feature provides customers operating across multiple organizations with comprehensive visibility of cloud costs across their multi-organization environment, but organization administrators maintain security management autonomy over their accounts.

Customers use AWS Organizations to centrally administer and manage billing for their multi-account environment. However, when they operate in a multi-organization environment, billing administrators must access the management account of each organization separately to collect invoices and pay bills. This decentralized approach to billing management creates unnecessary complexity for enterprises managing costs and paying bills across multiple AWS organizations. This feature also will be useful for AWS Partners to resell AWS products and solutions, and assume the responsibility of paying AWS for ...