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Organization glossary
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There are several terms you should be familiar with before using Organization. The terms and their descriptions 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.
- You can add another account group or member account under it by creating an account group.
- The control policy applied to an account group applies to all member accounts and account groups within that group.
- You can create an empty (with no member accounts under it) account group.
Independent accounts
An independent account is an account that does not belong to any organization.
- An independent account can create an organization.
- If you are an independent account and want 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.
To see a full list of terms and definitions, go to Glossary from the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.