AWS makes our life easier in many ways. But, as it often happens, in an attempt to address all possible needs, it ended up with just too many features to keep an eye on. Newbies or small teams that cannot have a dedicated AWS admin, may get lost or spend too much time managing and configuring it. Here are tips for setting up an AWS account from scratch.

Great writeup! I love that the AWS console remembers your previous IAM roles and lets you access them again quickly.