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I'd love to hear more about why you think that's the case! Maybe the next blog post?
The killer feature of AWS is that they've broken almost nothing since first launching over 15 years ago. Their commitment to keeping old stuff working is truly amazing. No other cloud hosting service comes close, because no other cloud service has had 15 years to prove themselves in the same way!
> My favorite way to create a network between all my services hosted in different AWS accounts is to share a VPC from a network account into all my service accounts and use security groups to authorize service-to-service communication. There’s no per-byte tax, zonal architectures are easy to reason about, and security groups work just like you expect. That's gold advice. I wish AWS RAM supported more services (like A…
I would love to see a browser extension for SSO account tabs if AWS can't solve it natively.
I love this approach, although I'm yet to work anywhere that does this. I guess the million (thousand?) dollar questios now become where do you draw the boundary across accounts? Presumably there are many bad ways to slice accounts up. And what happens when accounts do need to communicate? I can imagine three major scenarios for cross account permissions: * Cross account iam policies (painful in my experience) * Addi…
> Would love to hear the author's view. Instead you can hear AWS's view, which is to have one account per stage per region per service. I can't find a source but I work for Amazon and this is what was recommended to us by ProServe (the contracting branch of AWS) when we talked with them. I think it's idiotic though (because regions are 100% separated within an account, and it would easily triple the number of account…
> My favorite way to create a network between all my services hosted in different AWS accounts is to share a VPC from a network account into all my service accounts and use security groups to authorize service-to-service communication. There’s no per-byte tax, zonal architectures are easy to reason about, and security groups work just like you expect. That's gold advice. I wish AWS RAM supported more services (like A…
If you're on Mac/Linux you could have everyone use direnv. Add a .envrc file in each git repo (or your script's subdirectory) with `export AWS_PROFILE=profilename`. Now everyone is working with the same profile names without having to pass around config files.
Quota increases can be requested but the default limit tells us what AWS thinks normal usage should be for most use cases.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o...
Perhaps the author meant “more than one”?
Multiple AWS accounts makes life a living nightmare. We have 38 AWS accounts and it is incredibly difficult to maintain each one of them. IAM and even worse cross account IAM is horrible to author and maintain! Keeping track of resource limits and billing sucks. When using SSO, which we do, you cannot have more than one account open in the same browser at the same time. Use GCP instead, segregate your infra by projec…
Curious / product research: Are your 38 accounts all in the same organization? Do you have any human IAM users left or is it all IdP, all the time? Do you use Terraform or anything like it? Also, yes, a pox on the single-player AWS Console. I’ve at least found a way to logout from one account and login to another in the same motion but it’s still a poor experience.
Multiple AWS accounts makes life a living nightmare. We have 38 AWS accounts and it is incredibly difficult to maintain each one of them. IAM and even worse cross account IAM is horrible to author and maintain! Keeping track of resource limits and billing sucks. When using SSO, which we do, you cannot have more than one account open in the same browser at the same time. Use GCP instead, segregate your infra by projec…
You don't need to sso in each and every account, you can just have a user in the main org (or at any point in the org tree that is most appropriate) and assume the role within the account you want to manage.
Multiple AWS accounts makes life a living nightmare. We have 38 AWS accounts and it is incredibly difficult to maintain each one of them. IAM and even worse cross account IAM is horrible to author and maintain! Keeping track of resource limits and billing sucks. When using SSO, which we do, you cannot have more than one account open in the same browser at the same time. Use GCP instead, segregate your infra by projec…
http://willthames.github.io/2018/02/28/managing-multiple-aws...
You're welcome :)
One of the things I love most about google cloud is that "projects" are easy to create and easy to link to other projects. Roles and service accounts can even reference across projects, though I'm not sure I'd recommend doing that. No more faffing about with special accounts, passwords and difficult to configure shared VPCs, it all becomes so easy. Even managing the different accounts is difficult without browser ext…
Define “lots.” Because the default limit in AWS is 10 accounts per org. Quota increases can be requested but the default limit tells us what AWS thinks normal usage should be for most use cases. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o... Perhaps the author meant “more than one”?
This is certainly not true for a lot of AWS quotas. If you hit an ec2 quota for an instance type, that isn't AWS telling you that you are using too much compute. Its there as a speedbump to make sure you have some idea that you know what you are doing and to make sure AWS can actually service your requests.
AWS will happily let you have hundreds of child accounts. In fact, if you are talking to them about your architecture they will even encourage it (assuming that it is actually appropriate for the scale of your organization).