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"Creating the AWS Account Controller — Your rules don't apply to me" - Ian Mckay

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Creating the AWS Account Controller — "Your rules don't apply to me" Code: https://github.com/iann0036/aws-accou... Blog: https://onecloudplease.com/blog/autom... Speaker: Ian Mckay (Kablamo) Ian breaks basically everything; an AWS Partner Ambassador, Ian thrives on destruction. When he's not busy making helpful (but often awful) open-source tools, he's squatting S3 buckets, popping data lakes, and breaking every rule in the AWS Terms of Service. He also has a day job as the Cloud Lead at Kablamo, a cloud consultancy from Australia. Abstract: At re:Invent in 2018, AWS teased a solution that was used by the Amazon retail teams for managing the lifecycle of short-lived AWS accounts for development and testing purposes. That solution was never released and the manual process for deleting an AWS account is still a disaster. In this talk I present a solution that combines Amazon Connect, AWS Single Sign-On and some magic with headless browser automation to allow users to self-administer their own sandbox accounts. ...more
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"Creating the AWS Account Controller — Your rules don't apply to me" - Ian Mckay
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2020Jul 10
Creating the AWS Account Controller — "Your rules don't apply to me" Code: https://github.com/iann0036/aws-accou... Blog: https://onecloudplease.com/blog/autom... Speaker: Ian Mckay (Kablamo) Ian breaks basically everything; an AWS Partner Ambassador, Ian thrives on destruction. When he's not busy making helpful (but often awful) open-source tools, he's squatting S3 buckets, popping data lakes, and breaking every rule in the AWS Terms of Service. He also has a day job as the Cloud Lead at Kablamo, a cloud consultancy from Australia. Abstract: At re:Invent in 2018, AWS teased a solution that was used by the Amazon retail teams for managing the lifecycle of short-lived AWS accounts for development and testing purposes. That solution was never released and the manual process for deleting an AWS account is still a disaster. In this talk I present a solution that combines Amazon Connect, AWS Single Sign-On and some magic with headless browser automation to allow users to self-administer their own sandbox accounts.

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