[tedk-42]

These type of articles make me wanna quit doing anything in IT.

It's not a criticism of the author, more the current state of technology in AWS.

I'd really like to have just 1 AWS account where I can see and do everything there and not keep switching and think about account IDs or which account has what S3 bucket/server whatever.

[manv1]

It's always a tradeoff between blast radius and (in)convenience.

With everything in one account someone might accidentally destroy your production environment. That'll be awkward to explain. And with IAC, it could be as simple as one change to a VPC config that recreates instead of updates the VPC.

In normal IT (not Twitter) you usually have a production and test environment at least. The inconvenience more than makes up for accidentally destroying something in production. And before you say anything, if you haven't done that you haven't been in IT for long enough.

However, if you want to do it your way you should become the director and make it that way. You'll be sorry, but that'll be on your head.

I'm not sure if that's possible, but I haven't checked.

[canucklady]

Same. My current company has the same problem, which is that they continually layer additional complexity onto their previous architectural mistakes to try and mitigate them. This results in a complicated system where different independent parts all interact with each other like a rube goldberg machine. The dynamics of the resulting system become sort of perilous and unknowable, and it paralyzes future changes because nobody can predict the nth order effects.

[singlow]

Then do it. Why does your activity in IT depend on what someone on the internet says? For the rest of us, multi-account setups offer a large number of advantages that outweigh the inconveniences and we have built tooling to deal with most of those anyway.

[deadbunny]

The really frustrating things is that while AWS make the "Account" their best isolation layer they make managing those accounts with their tooling absolutely awful.

[garbagebin]

what kind of tooling are you looking for?