Adobe: 10 years of cloud, how to not clutter your AWS accounts

The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode, we celebrate a decade of cloud innovation at Adobe with Johannes Gehrs, Site Reliability Engineer, who shares how his team keeps AWS environments clean, efficient, and developer-friendly. We dive into practical strategies to reduce account sprawl, enforce good governance, and standardize everything on infrastructure as code. From using service control policies to building an internal developer platform, Johannes brings concrete tips that scale across large organizations. Whether you're wrestling with cloud governance or looking to optimize your AWS spend, this episode delivers insights you can apply right away.

With Johannes Gehrs, Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe

Adobe

AWS Organizations

AWS Ground Station - c

Service Control Policies (SCP)

Resource Control Polciies (RCP)

S3 Intelligent Tiering

Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Backstage: An open source framework for building developer portals

Terraform plan command

CloudFormation change sets

KRO: Kube Resource Orchestration