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Oliver Buchannon
Ross Wickman

I am a Manager of Cloud Services & Enablement, a Cloud Architect & SRE, and an AWS Community Builder. I specialize in AWS Cloud Architecture & Governance, building secure and scalable multi-org AWS environments containing 1 to 100+ AWS Accounts.

organizations

We're Back! Just in time for re:Invent: Early Access to Quiverstone inside

Nov 26, 2025

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6 min read

We're Back! Just in time for re:Invent: Early Access to Quiverstone inside

And we promise we won't empty the black tank on your lawn.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

tools

+3

Oofta... Finally back for re:Invent

Dec 2, 2024

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11 min read

Oofta... Finally back for re:Invent

After 11 months, here are the updates, heartaches, and lessons learned from AWS Management at scale.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

security

+2

re:Invent 2023 Updates to AWS Security Hub

Jan 19, 2024

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6 min read

re:Invent 2023 Updates to AWS Security Hub

Streamlining Security Management

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman
🧃 OH YEAH! - We're Back!!!

Dec 22, 2023

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9 min read

🧃 OH YEAH! - We're Back!!!

Updates, re:Invent, and Large-scale resource inventory

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+5

More support for Terraform

Jun 16, 2023

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4 min read

More support for Terraform

and post-conference announcements

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

cloudformation

+2

ClickOps vs. Automation and Repeatability

Jun 9, 2023

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6 min read

ClickOps vs. Automation and Repeatability

New APIs for CloudFormation StackSets

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

automation

+2

☀️ Wildcards for the win

Jun 2, 2023

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5 min read

☀️ Wildcards for the win

Service Catalog supports principal name wildcards with * and ?

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

control-tower

🎛️ 28 new ways to screw with your developers

May 26, 2023

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4 min read

🎛️ 28 new ways to screw with your developers

Control Tower Launches new proactive controls

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

security

+2

Don't click this 🔗

May 19, 2023

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3 min read

Don't click this 🔗

New Google Domains a big security concern

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+2

Consolidated billing nightmare

May 12, 2023

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6 min read

Consolidated billing nightmare

Just generate a CUR in every account from the start.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

support

+1

Managing and Governing Large Organizations

May 5, 2023

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6 min read

Managing and Governing Large Organizations

A series on the annoyances of account migration and management

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+4

🗺️ Management & Governance Cloud Environment Guide

Apr 21, 2023

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8 min read

🗺️ Management & Governance Cloud Environment Guide

and you can now add 7 new regions to you Control Tower Landing Zone configuration

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+5

🚤 Navigate CloudTrail Lake with this Library of Queries 📚

Apr 14, 2023

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6 min read

🚤 Navigate CloudTrail Lake with this Library of Queries 📚

and a framework for a 'real' account vending machine.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

support

+4

Deploy AWS Organizations and Control Tower the right way

Apr 7, 2023

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4 min read

Deploy AWS Organizations and Control Tower the right way

Access an online course and community that will save you thousands of dollars when deploying your AWS Infrastructure

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

support

+3

🐈 Schrodinger's Course 👨‍🏫 and Inventorying IAM Role Permissions

Apr 7, 2023

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8 min read

🐈 Schrodinger's Course 👨‍🏫 and Inventorying IAM Role Permissions

Run automation to get a make of all your IAM Policies attached to Roles

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

support

+4

Presale is here - Greenfield AWS Organizations Course

Mar 31, 2023

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3 min read

Presale is here - Greenfield AWS Organizations Course

Sign up for early access to the AWS Organization Greenfield Course

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+3

CICD and Me

Mar 24, 2023

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4 min read

CICD and Me

Follow along as I deploy AWS resources into multiple accounts with GitLab-CI

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

organizations

+1

🏎️ Done in 60 seconds 🎥

Mar 17, 2023

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4 min read

🏎️ Done in 60 seconds 🎥

Generating short-form content for your AWS struggles

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+2

How do you deploy your AWS Resources?

Mar 10, 2023

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6 min read

How do you deploy your AWS Resources?

Using GitLab-CI remote pipelines to standardized resource deployment.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

organizations

+1

Who is your 📧 provider?

Mar 3, 2023

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4 min read

Who is your 📧 provider?

New AWS Accounts require unique email addresses. How do you manage them?

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+5

🛬 Guidance for AWS Control Tower 🛃

Feb 24, 2023

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6 min read

🛬 Guidance for AWS Control Tower 🛃

A compelling argument for (and against) using it.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+3

Let's try this again. Fast is slow. Slow is fast.

Feb 17, 2023

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4 min read

Let's try this again. Fast is slow. Slow is fast.

Content poll and early access to community.

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

governance

+6

⚾ If you build it, they will come? Complaint Greenfield AWS Organization(s) 🧢

Feb 10, 2023

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8 min read

⚾ If you build it, they will come? Complaint Greenfield AWS Organization(s) 🧢

That's not always true in the product space. So if I do this, will you use it?

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

systems-manager

+2

Premature AWS blog posting???

Feb 3, 2023

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7 min read

Premature AWS blog posting???

When content caching comes to the rescue

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman

support

+5

⏲️ Schedule AWS SSM Runbooks 📚

Jan 13, 2023

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6 min read

⏲️ Schedule AWS SSM Runbooks 📚

Set it and forget it with AWS EventBridge Scheduler SSM Automation

Ross Wickman
Ross Wickman
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