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AWS Organizations helps manage multiple accounts within a single organization. It supports centralized billing, security policies, and access controls, while tools like Control Tower and Service Control Policies (SCPs) enhance governance and security across accounts.

In DevOps, key environments are development (dev), production (prod), and quality assurance or staging (QA/Stage). Code is developed in the dev environment, tested in QA/Stage, and finally deployed to prod for end customers. Separate environments help ensure reliability and stability.

Separating environments by AWS accounts helps to isolate resources and enhance security. A dedicated account for each environment (e.g., dev, QA, prod) improves control over access, permissions, and costs.

Having dedicated accounts for audit and security purposes enhances governance and compliance. It allows for centralized logging, monitoring, and enforcing security controls separately from other operational accounts, helping ensure consistent security practices across environments.