Ensuring a Strong AWS Foundation for Multi-Account and Multi-Region Environments

An AWS account is a logical container for the AWS resources that you create. It provides a structure that can be used to easily manage the access, billing, and isolation needs of a group of related resources.

All organizations start their AWS journey by creating an account and hosting some proof of concept (PoC) workloads on it. As they gain more experience and know-how, their confidence and comfort with cloud services increases. At a certain point, the organizations might decide on migrating their on-premises production workloads to the cloud. Or, even better, they might directly start developing cloud-native applications by leveraging AWS services for maximized innovation.

There is often a pivoting point where they must decide if all their workloads should be hosted in one or multiple AWS accounts. Key drivers behind these discussions are the problems associated with a single account. These problems...