From 7e433f2bb0eafa14572d615afeeb3f1aa95f047a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicki Washington Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:18:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add fresh root account --- .../should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md diff --git a/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md b/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..963c104e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: "Do you recommend starting with a fresh root account?" +description: "We recommend starting fresh with a completely clean account provisioned 100% from the ground up." +tags: +- root account +- AWS +- Terraform +--- + +## Question + +Do you recommend starting with a fresh root account, or building out of our current root AWS account? + + +## Answer + +We recommend starting fresh with a completely clean account provisioned 100% from the ground up using automation tools like Terraform and consistent naming conventions that are programmatically generated . + +This is not a hard requirement to "start fresh with AWS accounts." It really depends on what things look like. If there's a lot of cruft, we like to start clean. It's ultimately based on your preference. By starting completely fresh, we can still peer VPCs to obtain DB access and setup whitelists for cross-account access to Lambdas, KMS keys, and DynamoDB tables. + +We also eliminate naming collisions or impact to production systems. From 3f4ad332f8683132f924b6cc52d04ab4cf5c64b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicki Washington Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:46:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update fresh root FAQ --- content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md b/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md index 963c104e8..555952a71 100644 --- a/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md +++ b/content/faq/should-start-with-fresh-root-account.md @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ --- title: "Do you recommend starting with a fresh root account?" -description: "We recommend starting fresh with a completely clean account provisioned 100% from the ground up." +description: "We recommend starting fresh with a completely clean account provisioned 100% from the ground up using Infrastructure as Code." tags: - root account - AWS - Terraform +- Infrastructure as Code --- ## Question