Working on the next article in my #AWS Ops series, and one little section is a little spicier than the rest…
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### Long-lived resources need a long-lived tool
Some of your Organization-scoped resources are going to last a long time. For example your management account is likely to exist for as long your company does! And certain resources, like your database for human users, and centralized auditing tools, may well live as long.
There's a tension here between multi-year-lifetime resources and what can be, frankly, the "IaC tool of the week". In other words, don't manage crucial org-wide resources that could live for a decade using a tool that might not make it until next year.