Design a multi-account MLOps architecture on AWS for a regulated enterprise
Updated Aug 1, 2026
Short answer
Separate accounts for data, development, staging and production under an Organization; models are promoted as approved registry packages across account boundaries via cross-account roles and resource policies, with all deployment driven by CI/CD rather than human console access to production.
Deep explanation
Account boundaries are AWS's strongest isolation primitive. In regulated environments the requirement is not merely tidiness — it is that a data scientist cannot reach production, and that every production change is attributable and reproducible.
Account topology
- Data/Lake account — the S3 data lake, Lake Formation, Glue Catalog. Owns the data; grants read access outward.
- Dev account — Studio domains, experimentation, wide permissions on non-production data.…
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