Create an AWS Account with CloudFormation

ACM.178 Deploy an IAM, Billing, and Governance account in a Governance OU

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
12 min readMar 7, 2023

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Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code.

In the last post, I covered some risks related to IdPs and specifically an attack on Azure Active Directory when used as an on-premises IdP based on a publication by the US Government after the Solar Winds attack.

That was a bit of a hiatus from the posts I’ve been writing about using Okta as an IdP, because someone made a comment that got me curious. Sorry I’m easily side-tracked :-) and it was a very interesting statement. If you want to find all the Okta related posts so far to setup Okta as an IdP for AWS you can find those here:

In this post we’re going to create an a new AWS account in an AWS Organization with CloudFormation.

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

CEO 2nd Sight Lab | Penetration Testing & Assessments | AWS Hero | Masters of Infosec & Software Engineering | GSE 240 etc | IANS | SANS Difference Makers Award