---
title: Manage multiple Elastic Cloud organizations
description: An organization is the umbrella for all of your Elastic Cloud resources, users, and account settings. You can create or access multiple organizations...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/manage-multiple-organizations
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
---

# Manage multiple Elastic Cloud organizations
An [organization](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/cloud-organization) is the umbrella for all of your Elastic Cloud resources, users, and account settings. You can create or access multiple organizations from a single Elastic Cloud account.
You might want to create multiple organizations for reasons such as the following:
- You want to separate management of your Elastic Cloud resources and settings for different use cases or teams.
- You want to create a [trial](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/create-an-organization#general-sign-up-trial-what-is-included-in-my-trial) to evaluate additional Elastic Cloud features or solutions.

Although you can access multiple organizations from the same Elastic Cloud account, each organization is independent. Each organization has its own set of resources, users, settings, and billing and licensing. Because of this, you need to be logged in to the organization you want to manage to make changes to its resources and settings.
<tip>
  This page covers admin tasks for managing organizations. To learn about joining, viewing, switching between, or leaving organizations as a member, refer to [Join or leave an organization](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/cloud-account/join-or-leave-an-organization) and [View and switch between Elastic Cloud organizations](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/cloud-account/switch-organizations).
</tip>

You can perform the following tasks to manage multiple organizations:
- [Create a new organization](#create-a-new-organization)
- [View the organizations you have access to](#view-organizations)
- [Switch to a different organization](#switch-to-a-different-organization)
- [Invite users to join additional organizations](#invite-additional-orgs)
- [Reconcile alternative email addresses](#reconcile-email)
- [View your users' organization memberships](#view-org-memberships)


## Create a new organization

You can create a new organization at any time. Each organization starts with its own [14-day trial](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/create-an-organization#general-sign-up-trial-what-is-included-in-my-trial).
To create a new organization:
1. Log in to the [Elastic Cloud Console](https://cloud.elastic.co?page=docs&placement=docs-body).
2. From the top navigation menu, click on the user menu and select **Profile**.
3. Click the **My organizations** tab.
4. From the **Organizations** page, click `plus_in_circle` **Create organization**.
5. Enter an optional name for your organization, and then click **Create organization**.

After you create the organization, you can switch to it by clicking the organization name in the **Organizations** list.
<tip>
  You can also create a new organization by clicking on your current organization name and selecting `plus_in_circle`  **Create**.
</tip>


## View the organizations you have access to

You can view the organizations you have access to from the **Overview** page.
To view the organizations:
1. Log in to the [Elastic Cloud Console](https://cloud.elastic.co?page=docs&placement=docs-body).
2. From the top navigation menu, click on the user menu and select **Profile**.
3. Click the **My organizations** tab.

The organizations you have access to appear in the **My organizations** list. In the list, you can view the organization's name, its status, your [roles](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-organization/user-roles) in the organization, and when you were added to the organization.
<note>
  Role information is refreshed only when you log in to the organization, and might be out of date if you haven't logged in recently.
</note>

<tip>
  You can also access your organizations list by clicking the **My organizations** button on the **Organization** page.
</tip>


## Switch to a different organization

You can switch between organizations at any time. Depending on the authentication requirements for the organization, you might be required to re-authenticate. Switching also ends any active Elastic Cloud sessions you have open in other browser tabs.
1. Log in to the [Elastic Cloud Console](https://cloud.elastic.co?page=docs&placement=docs-body).
2. From the top navigation menu, click on the user menu and select **Profile**.
3. Click the **My organizations** tab.
4. Click the name of the organization you want to switch to. If it doesn't appear in the list, click **Manage organizations** to view all of the organizations you have access to.

<tip>
  You can also switch organizations from the breadcrumbs at the top of any page. Click your current organization's name and select another organization from the list.
</tip>


## Invite users to join additional organizations

You must [send invitations](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-organization/manage-users#ec-invite-users) from the organization you want users to join. You can't invite users to join multiple organizations at once.
If a user already has an Elastic Cloud account, then they don't need to sign up again. Instead, they can log in with their selected login method.
If your organization uses [SAML SSO](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-organization/configure-saml-authentication), then you don't need to invite users to join the organization. Users are added to the organization automatically when they log in to your identity provider SSO URL.
Organizations can have different authentication requirements. For example, one organization might enforce SAML SSO, while another organization might not enforce any specific login method. If your organization enforces a specific login method, then the user will need to use that method to log in, and might be prompted to re-authenticate.

## Reconcile alternative email addresses

Before July 2026, each organization required its own Elastic Cloud account and email address. You can now use one Elastic Cloud account across multiple organizations, and you might want to remove redundant accounts.
For each organization where a user currently signs in with a different email address, invite them again using the email address that you want them to use everywhere. Assign the same [roles and privileges](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-organization/user-roles) they had on the alternate account.
After the user accepts the invitation, you can [delete](/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-organization/manage-users#manage-existing-users) their alternate account from that organization.

## View your users' organization memberships

You can view the organizations that your users are members of from the **Members** tab of the **Organization** page. This page shows which organizations each member of your current organization belongs to.
To view the organizations:
1. Log in to the [Elastic Cloud Console](https://cloud.elastic.co?page=docs&placement=docs-body).
2. From a deployment or project on the home page, select **Manage**.
3. From the lower navigation menu, select **Organization**.
4. Click the **Members** tab.
5. Click the name of the user whose organization memberships you want to view.