Organization glossary

Available in Classic and VPC

There are several terms you should be familiar with before using Organization. The glossary and its description are as follows:

Quota Policy

A policy that defines usage limits for services in a Region/zone can be applied to account groups within an Organization

• A Quota Policy linked to an account group is applied to all of its sub-member accounts and account groups
• Master accounts can create a limit policy within the resource usage limits provided by Ncloud and apply it to the account groups within the Organization

Account group

A set of member accounts/account groups used to manage the hierarchy of Organization

• An account group can be created and added to another account group or member account under it
• The control policy applied to an account group applies to all member accounts and account groups within that group
• An empty (with no member accounts under it) account can be created

Independent accounts

An independent account is an account that does not belong to any Organization

• An independent account can create an Organization
• If an independent account to belong to a previously created Organization, an invitation from that Organization's master account is required

Master account

A master account is an account that has administrative privileges for an Organization, and the account that created the Organization becomes the master account for that Organization

• Only the master account can invite other accounts to the Organization or manage member accounts for the Organization
  • A master account exists in the top hierarchy of an Organization and cannot be located under an account group or member account
• An Organization must have one master account, and a master account cannot create another Organization
• The master account does not have access to sub-member accounts
• Unable to log into the portal/console of a member account with the account information of the master account

Member account

A member account is any account that belongs to an Organization, and can only belong to one Organization

• The master account can invite an independent account to an Organization, and if the independent account accepts the invitation, it will be switched to a member account for that Organization
• The master account can be removed from the member Organization, which converts the member account to an independent account
• A member account can leave the Organization, which converts the member account to an independent account