# Application account types
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Application accounts are AWS accounts within the AMS-managed landing zone architecture that you use to host your workloads. AMS offers three types of Application accounts:
+ [AMS-managed application accounts](application-account-ams-managed.md)
+ [AMS Accelerate accounts](malz-accelerate-account.md)
+ [Customer Managed application accounts](application-account-cust-man.md)

Application accounts are grouped in different OUs in AWS Organizations depending on the Application account type:
+ Root OU:

  1. Applications OU
     + Managed OU: AMS-managed accounts
     + Development OU: AMS-managed accounts with Developer mode enabled

  1. Accelerate OU: AMS Accelerate Application accounts

  1. Customer-managed OU: Customer-managed Application accounts

Application accounts are provisioned through an RFC submitted from the Management account:
+ Create Application Account With VPC [ct-1zdasmc2ewzrs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/ctref/deployment-managed-management-account-create-application-account-with-vpc.html)
+ Create Accelerate Account [ct-2p93tyd5angmi](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/ctref/deployment-managed-management-account-create-accelerate-account.html)
+ Create Customer-Managed Application Account [ct-3pwbixz27n3tn](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managedservices/latest/ctref/deployment-managed-management-account-create-customer-managed-application-account.html)