"A Note from the Author" I work in the Technical Support division of an AWS reseller operating under the AWS Solution Provider Program in Japan. This post is written from that perspective — managing hundreds of AWS Organizations on behalf of our customers and wrestling with the policy sprawl that comes with it. Japan's IT industry has traditionally relied heavily on outsourcing to external vendors for building and managing cloud infrastructure, rather than developing in-house capabilities. Decision-making can be slow when multiple organizations are involved, and the AWS reseller model itself is a product of this outsourcing culture. Many Japanese companies purchase AWS through resellers rather than directly, which means resellers like us end up provisioning and managing a large number of AWS accounts and Organizations on their behalf.…