[alimoeeny]

That is definitely a very good practice. Still it does not eliminate the need for something like Hologram, since you still need to take care of your keys (both for security reasons) and to make sure your dev env is as close as possible to your production and ...

[ryanfitz]

Didn't mean to imply no need for Hologram or not to keep dev as close as possible to production. However, I do think you should be doing this before looking into a solution like hologram. I've seen many startups that run all their environments on a single account and eventually something bad happens knocking production offline. If you were to use hologram, but still only a single AWS account you could still just as easily kill production.

[alimoeeny]

Absolutely, I've seen similar things. Even after explaining the pitfalls some people are reluctant to do it. Partly because people don't want to embrace the aws ("cloud", the new way of doing things) completely, they still want to think of everything as if it is their own machines in their own data server only amazon plays the role of the ops guys.