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By in large there are three paths you can take to build your platforms, you can combine 2 and 3 and the first is not recommended for any production level workloads.
You must go with option 3 (and 2) for your AWS implementation, if you decide to go with option 1 or 2 alone your project might advance faster initially but the technical debt will “pile up” and slowly but surely slow you down which will cost you time and as a consequence money. Bottom line, start your AWS platform build and account setup using code and manually configure only the most basic and necessary configuration tasks, for example, creating your first AWS account. Now that you are on the path of using code you also have to store the code in a way it is possible to share the version and develop in parallel, and, this is why using an SCM (Software Configuration Management) platform such as Github; GitLab; Bitbucket etc is crucial to provide these and more features for your code development success. After you have set up your SCM solution we are on the path of implementing a CI/CD or GitOps strategy to automate the management and release of your platforms on AWS. Some advice from field experience:
Getting the right strategy and processes to use to develop your platform’s code is the critical step on your AWS journey to success, we’ve seen too many projects trying to catch up and taking a long time to deliver specifically because they didn’t get this step right from the start. In Part 1 we presented the AWS Organisation with multiple accounts model and here the SCM and CI/CD or GitOps enabled by a good SCM implementation will enable the automation and management of the multiple accounts and environments through code that can be re-used and redeployed to different accounts or environments, we can’t emphasize enough how crucial it is to get this right from day 1.
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