[wrs]

AWS’s account system is nuts. I know it grew historically out of the “just buy S3 storage with your Amazon account” original, but it’s 2025 and they run half the internet now.

Until a few months ago, you couldn’t even be signed in to more than one account at a time in the console. Now you can use…up to five? (If you’re following “best practices” you likely have far more than five.)

For anyone who hasn’t seen GCP’s console, there’s just a simple menu to switch your view to any of the projects you have access to. There’s even a search box in case you have enough to need it.