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Every team wants its own AWS account on day one. How do you hand out accounts safely without becoming a bottleneck?

Account-per-team is the right instinct, but hand-rolled account setup drifts within a month. Vending turns governance into a pipeline with an SLA instead of a ticket queue.

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Account-per-team is the right instinct, but hand-rolled account setup drifts within a month. Vending turns governance into a pipeline with an SLA instead of a ticket queue.

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