AWS Account Naming Policy
Each AWS account requires a unique email address (e.g.,
[email protected]), but the user part (before the "@") is limited to 64
characters. To avoid exceeding this limit, we need a structured policy for
segmenting account names effectively.
Segment Our policy Alternative
Environment 3 characters
`prd`, `stg`, `sbx`, `shd`
● Full char: `production
● Four char: `prod`
Region AZ id style
`usw2`, `use1`, `apne1`,
`euw1`
● xx-xxx-1 style: `us-west-2`
● ISO3166-1 Alpha-2: `us`, `jp`
● IATA airport code: `TYO`