WE ARE BACK!… Again. And just like your cousin Eddie, we’re here as an agent of chaos for your holiday season. We just want you and your AWS Organizations to have a great closeout to the year. We mean well, but we have a favor to ask. And no, it’s not if we can empty our black tank in the city sewer outside of your house.
In the last issue of 2024, we mentioned that instead of providing content and courses around AWS Management & Governance, we are working on a solution that helps pull all of your Organization and Account information into a single dashboard (the one AWS never gave you) for inventory and discovery. As well as provide some great tooling, all in a central location to prevent you from bouncing around from Git Repo, to AWS Document, Resource Spec, and back again.
Introducing Quiverstone
Formerly Sentri Cloud, Quiverstone provides the stable foundation and comprehensive quiver of ready-to-deploy tools for discovery, inventory, access, and enablement across multiple AWS organizations.
EARLY ACCESS
Starting TODAY, all of you loyal subscribers to Unlimited Leave will be given access to the platform to kick the tires, provide feedback, and be heard when it comes to feature requests.
This platform is to help all Individual Consultants, as well as Managed or Professional Services teams, manage access and all of the centralized tooling to minimize the toil of managing multiple AWS Organizations and Individual accounts for your business or your clients.
The solution does not deploy or configure you’re environments for you, but Quiverstone will help you gain visibility to new AWS account creations, provide trusted access to any or all accounts without needing to manage individual IAM User credentials or require authentication in your clients IDP.
What it does… today:
Centralized authentication across all your AWS orgs/accounts
Role-chaining tools and browser session access
Basic Customer/Client tracking (contact info & Organization Info)
Auxiliary wiz-bang tooling (e.g., filter/search of the AWS ip-ranges.json)
Future Features:
Automatic account resource discovery and inventory
Template library for resource deployment and best-practice deployment
Custom compliance reporting and scheduled automation
Additions from beta users’ requests
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Let’s Chat
I will be at re:Invent 2025 from Sunday Evening to Friday Morning. If you are around the conference, I would love to chat AWS Management & Governance, or if you have feedback on Quiverstone, I would love to hear it.
Email me at: [email protected] so we can coordinate a time and place.
If you are bored on Sunday, waiting for your flight, or you are already at Midday Madness eating chicken wings, be sure to tune into the AWS Twitch Feed on Sunday at 11 am PST to watch me on the Pink Team compete in the 1st Annual Road-to-Reinvent Competition.
More details here:
Going Forward
This is the last issue of Unlimited Leave in the context of AWS Management & Governance. I sincerely appreciate your patronage of this publication. I’m sorry I have not given it the love it deserved over the last 12 to 18 months. It would never have become what it was without the honorable mention by Corey Quinn in Duckbill’s LWIA Newsletter.
I have truly enjoyed sharing my take on Multi-Organization Management and service announcements around AWS CloudOps tooling and building AWS Platforms and Organizations that run well, even while you are on vacation. This newsletter has served its purpose.
I plan on continuing that in some capacity over in the rebranded Quiverstone Newsletter “ArroWS & Mortar” where we will share:
ArroWS: unique and helpful tooling to add to your quiver for Multi-Org / Multi-Account management, either provided by Quiverstone or found in various AWS Communities
Mortar: commentary around new or updated AWS CloudOps services, policy, best practices, and opinion around all of the things that help build a solid AWS Organizational foundation.
Changelog: Updated releases, features, and roadmap for the development of our new platform.
Yes, it is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it will continue to have the same spin as it always has.
I hate goodbyes
It is goodbye, but just for now.
Be on the lookout for new newsletter messages from mail.quiverstone.io
…or be sure to smash that unsubscribe link before the end of re:Invent.
No hard feelings.