Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Accounts

All too often, I see customers using only a single cloud account. Have you heard of a company named Code Spaces? More than likely the answer is no, because this is a bit of a rhetorical question. The company no longer exists. This company perished so that we can learn from its mistake. Their cloud account was compromised and ultimately everything in it was deleted, including their backups. They had backups, but they were stored in the same account. We will cover security topics in Chapter 9, Security, but the point here is that we can use cloud accounts as an isolation mechanism to create bulkheads to protect the system. My basic advice is that companies start with at least four accounts: a master account for only consolidated billing, ...