Evaluating the business structure and account schema

As part of this exercise and others in the following chapters, we will be creating several user accounts inside a directory that we can use with various AWS services. Let's take a look at a sample account and its available attributes:

Table 8.1 – One user record from the organization

We've built this organization to include several users with diverse attribute values in order to set up several example scenarios that we are likely to see in an enterprise use case. To help us stay focused on how we are solving identity challenges on AWS rather than concerning ourselves with needing to remember names, each employee record is named for their job title. Furthermore, each account will track to a specific AWS use case or environment. We will dive into the details of the AWS organizational design in the next section. For now, let's look at all the accounts inside of our directory and a few key...