Organizations

Organizations allow you to model your resource hierarchy so that it matches your actual organizational setup. Organizations can be parent nodes for other organizations or for projects.

Example

In this example, the root organization hosts two organizational units:

• Tres Commas – Standard customer organization that can be used for internal projects purposes

• Moonshot – Reseller organization for managing your end-customers organizations and projects

The reseller organization is divided into two sub-units that serve domestic and international end-customers. The sub-unit that handles the international end-customers is further divided into organizations that do business in specific countries.

Here are some important definitions:

Root Organization

Root Organization is a legal entity created in Equinix IAM platform that is a legal parent of more than one customer organizations. Generally, no users can gain access to the root organization and hence any changes requiring access to root will be routed through CSMs.

First Level Organization

A First Level Organization is a legal entity created in Equinix IAM platform. There are 3 ways to create a first level organization:

• Whenever a new billing account is created.

• When a customer uses self-service onboarding to onboard to Equinix platform.

• A user with access to root organization can create a first level organization.

Every first level organization has exactly one root organization as their parent.

Second Level Organization

A Second Level Organization is a logical grouping that user can use to organize their assets in a way that makes sense to them. For example, by creating departments.