Platform / overview

Organizations and projects

An organization is your company’s account on Origin Cloud. It holds the people and service accounts that can act in it, the billing accounts it pays through, and the projects your resources live in. You register an organization once; after that you work inside its projects.

The following diagram shows what an organization holds and how a project connects resources to billing.

What an organization holdsAn organization holds members with roles, billing accounts and projects. Each project holds resources such as instances, volumes and VPCs, and is charged to one billing account of the same organization.

charged to

Organization

Members and roles

Billing accounts

Projects

Resources

Key concepts

Organization
Your company’s account. It has a name, an ID such as 0a1b2c3d4e5f, and a review status. Whoever creates it becomes its Owner. See Create an organization.

Review status
Whether the organization may create billable resources: PENDING_REVIEW, ACTIVE or REJECTED. See Organization review status.

Project
A container for the resources of one application, team or environment. Every instance, volume and VPC belongs to exactly one project. Roles can be granted on a single project. See Manage projects.

Billing account
What a project is charged to. Every organization starts with one billing account, named default, and every project is linked to one. See Billing.

Members
The people and service accounts that hold a role in the organization. See IAM.

What you can do

Limits and quotas

Quotas apply per organization and, if you set budgets, per project. See Limits.

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