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Purpose

To facilitate the deployment and management of AWS accounts it is recommended to have clear naming convention that reflect your organization.

Decision

Choose a method to naming the different AWS Accounts

AWS Accounts Naming Matrix

Organizational Unit

Account Naming Convention

Security

Default (Audit, LogArchive)

Infrastructure

Default (Networking, SharedServices)

Workloads

UniBW_AA_BB_CC_projectname_subprojectname

Sandbox

UniBW_AA_BB_CC_sandbox_username

Students

UniBW_AA_BB_CC_DD_username

Suspended

Imported from origin OU


AA (Organization Unit):


BB (Faculties / Research Institutes):

Faculties:

Research Institutes:


CC (Professorship):


DD (Project Type):


Examples:


Refer to: 1-1 - Decision - Foundational Account Design for explaination about which Organisational Unit to put your account under.