Best Practice AWS Account Structure

MakeCloud supports business intelligence company PEI, leverage AWS with expert cloud and DevOps services.

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Quality DevOps resources can be hard to find but quality is exactly what we found with MakeCloud. Their friendly and pragmatic approach made them a pleasure to work with, and I’d recommend them to anyone.

Neil Sayer | Head of Technology, PEI Media

The Challenge

PEI Group is a subscriber-focused business intelligence company. Their portfolio of specialist product brands includes Private Equity International, PE Hub and Infrastructure Investor.

PEI’s AWS infrastructure evolved over several years. They had a single AWS account containing all test and production infrastructure and workload resources had been deployed manually. Changes were difficult and error-prone, and this slowed down the delivery of features to customers.

The Solution

MakeCloud deployed a new AWS account structure using AWS Control Tower. This enabled PEI to separate production from non-production workloads, plus dedicated AWS accounts for backups and audit logging.

All workload infrastructure was defined using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) for consistent, repeatable deployments. We configured fully automated CI/CD pipelines for application deployments so that developers can promote releases seamlessly from development to production.

The Result

The implemented best practice AWS account structure provided increased operational efficiency through consistent and repeatable deployments. The dedicated AWS account improved security with dedicated backups and audit logging. Resulting in the successful technical foundations and operational structure required for PEI to continue to scale as a business.

Business Benefits

Implementing AWS best practice and account structure enabled PEI Media to increase operational efficiency, improve security and ensure business scalability.