A Chrome Plugin: Highlighting your AWS Account
I'm working on a set of projects based in AWS. Our projects have somewhere between 7 and 9 different environments representing different levels of software maturity. Production is the most restricted. Development is the least restricted. The rest fall somewhere in between. The company partitions the different levels of their SDLC into separate AWS accounts. Each account can have multiple environments that are of similar concerns and access controls. AWS account isolation makes it easy to identify and implement security rules and vary developer , dev-ops and operations access based on the account. The diagram at right shows a typical 3 account set-up where some of the accounts contain multiple environments. Our company actually has over 20 accounts used for various pre-prod, prod and partner purposes The AWS Console. The AWS console lets a user operate in a single account at one time. Enterprise users log into the AWS console with Federated User ids tha...