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Creating a Project Account With Microtemplates on AWS
ACM.420 Creating a new account in a specific OU with the project ID in the name
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In the last post, I created all my AWS accounts, in parallel as much as possible.
In this post, I’m going to set up a project account. Sometimes you need a segregated account for a specific purpose and that’s what I need right now. I’m going to use my microtemplates and container that requires MFA to execute deployment jobs to set that up.
First I need to create the account. I want to give each project account a unique name so I’m going to provide that name and pass it in as a parameter when I create the account. I showed how to use parameters in a prior post and how I added parameter names to my parameters here:
