Organizing resources using compartments
Compartments are a hierarchical construct, that is, they are a logical boundary that groups resources, each of which can exist in only one compartment. This construct can be used for a number of purposes, including the following:
- IAM: This is where you can group resources in a compartment for the purpose of restricting access to those resources.
- Metering/Billing: You can set limits on resource usage within a compartment; alternatively, you can bill the usage within a compartment to a specific contract.
- Visibility/Compliance/Audits: People in a particular department should only know about the resources in their compartment. You can distinguish between resources/usage in this compartment in order to apply specific governance/compliance rules.
- Mergers/Acquisitions/Changes: You can move an acquired company's tenancy inside of its new parent company's tenancy; alternatively, you can remove a subsidiary's compartment...
