Businesses that are starting to adopt AWS, expanding their footprint on AWS, or planning to enhance an established AWS environment need to ensure they have a foundation on AWS for their cloud.
environment. One important aspect of their foundation is organizing their AWS environment following a multi-account strategy. Using multiple AWS accounts to help isolate and manage your business applications and data can help you optimize across most of the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars, including operational excellence, security, reliability, and cost optimization. This paper provides best practices and current recommendations for organizing your overall AWS environment. The extent to which you use these best practices depends on your stage of the cloud adoption journey and specific business needs.