cloudaccounts

CloudAccounts are logical containers used in cloud computing to organize and manage a tenant's resources, identities, and billing within a cloud service. They provide isolation between workloads, establish administrative boundaries, and enable cost tracking across teams and projects.

A cloud account typically contains a unique account identifier, authentication credentials, an identity and access management (IAM) configuration, a set of cloud resources (compute, storage, networks), and an associated billing profile. Access is granted to principals such as users, service accounts, or external applications.

Lifecycle management covers creation, provisioning, ongoing administration, and eventual deactivation or deletion. Governance practices include naming conventions, tagging, quota management, and policy enforcement to ensure appropriate usage, compliance, and resource visibility.

Security considerations focus on least privilege access, multi-factor authentication, key management and rotation, regular access reviews, and comprehensive auditing of actions and changes. Environments should support incident response, backup, and disaster recovery planning at the account level.

In many organizations, cloud accounts are organized under a management structure such as an organization or tenant to enable centralized control, federation with external identity providers, cross-account access, and consolidated cost reporting. They are a foundational concept across cloud platforms.