Creating AWS Accounts Best practices when using AWS at an enterprise level are to use a multi-account strategy, which helps provide isolation, greater control and limited blast radius. This is highlighted in the AWS Landing Zone. In order to play around with new services like AWS Organizations and fully understand cross-account access and implications, I have set up 3 separate AWS accounts Set up AWS CLI I find it easier to use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to call the APIs of AWS services directly.