AWS Organizations Close Account Constraint
ACM.220 Beware of the limitations of closing accounts through AWS Organizations
Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code. Also Cloud Governance.
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In the last post I covered the steps to remove or decommission AWS Control Tower.
I’ve heard of companies that create accounts for every single developer in an organization. If you have a lot of developers that could end up being a lot of accounts.
Now recently, unfortunately, some tech companies have had to layoff a number of people at a time. You probably want to close those accounts to reduce costs as well, right?
Well today, I closed less than 10 accounts and got this error:
I can’t close any more accounts through AWS Organizations for 30 days. Why? I have no idea. Even if you aren’t creating any new resources in those accounts you might have things running like security…
