diff --git a/moto/budgets/__init__.py b/moto/budgets/__init__.py
index 90420dcbc..20115d73d 100644
--- a/moto/budgets/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/budgets/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import budgets_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 budgets_backends = {"global": budgets_backend}
-mock_budgets = budgets_backend.decorator
+mock_budgets = base_decorator(budgets_backends)
diff --git a/moto/cloudformation/custom_model.py b/moto/cloudformation/custom_model.py
index 8e650d504..fe4ae5bc1 100644
--- a/moto/cloudformation/custom_model.py
+++ b/moto/cloudformation/custom_model.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import json
 import threading
 
 from moto import settings
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from moto.awslambda import lambda_backends
 from uuid import uuid4
 
diff --git a/moto/core/__init__.py b/moto/core/__init__.py
index f1ef7e358..049df9110 100644
--- a/moto/core/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/core/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-from .models import BaseModel, BaseBackend, get_account_id, ACCOUNT_ID  # noqa
-from .models import CloudFormationModel, CloudWatchMetricProvider  # noqa
+from .models import BaseBackend, get_account_id, ACCOUNT_ID  # noqa
+from .common_models import BaseModel  # noqa
+from .common_models import CloudFormationModel, CloudWatchMetricProvider  # noqa
 from .models import patch_client, patch_resource  # noqa
 from .responses import ActionAuthenticatorMixin
 
diff --git a/moto/core/common_models.py b/moto/core/common_models.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..abe42f2b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/moto/core/common_models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+from abc import abstractmethod
+from .models import InstanceTrackerMeta
+
+
+class BaseModel(metaclass=InstanceTrackerMeta):
+    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+        instance = super(BaseModel, cls).__new__(cls)
+        cls.instances.append(instance)
+        return instance
+
+
+# Parent class for every Model that can be instantiated by CloudFormation
+# On subclasses, implement all methods as @staticmethod to ensure correct behaviour of the CF parser
+class CloudFormationModel(BaseModel):
+    @staticmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def cloudformation_name_type():
+        # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-name.html
+        # This must be implemented as a staticmethod with no parameters
+        # Return None for resources that do not have a name property
+        pass
+
+    @staticmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def cloudformation_type():
+        # This must be implemented as a staticmethod with no parameters
+        # See for example https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-dynamodb-table.html
+        return "AWS::SERVICE::RESOURCE"
+
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def has_cfn_attr(cls, attr):
+        # Used for validation
+        # If a template creates an Output for an attribute that does not exist, an error should be thrown
+        return True
+
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def create_from_cloudformation_json(
+        cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name, **kwargs
+    ):
+        # This must be implemented as a classmethod with parameters:
+        # cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
+        # Extract the resource parameters from the cloudformation json
+        # and return an instance of the resource class
+        pass
+
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def update_from_cloudformation_json(
+        cls, original_resource, new_resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
+    ):
+        # This must be implemented as a classmethod with parameters:
+        # cls, original_resource, new_resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
+        # Extract the resource parameters from the cloudformation json,
+        # delete the old resource and return the new one. Optionally inspect
+        # the change in parameters and no-op when nothing has changed.
+        pass
+
+    @classmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def delete_from_cloudformation_json(
+        cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
+    ):
+        # This must be implemented as a classmethod with parameters:
+        # cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
+        # Extract the resource parameters from the cloudformation json
+        # and delete the resource. Do not include a return statement.
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def is_created(self):
+        # Verify whether the resource was created successfully
+        # Assume True after initialization
+        # Custom resources may need time after init before they are created successfully
+        return True
+
+
+class ConfigQueryModel:
+    def __init__(self, backends):
+        """Inits based on the resource type's backends (1 for each region if applicable)"""
+        self.backends = backends
+
+    def list_config_service_resources(
+        self,
+        resource_ids,
+        resource_name,
+        limit,
+        next_token,
+        backend_region=None,
+        resource_region=None,
+        aggregator=None,
+    ):
+        """For AWS Config. This will list all of the resources of the given type and optional resource name and region.
+
+        This supports both aggregated and non-aggregated listing. The following notes the difference:
+
+        - Non-Aggregated Listing -
+        This only lists resources within a region. The way that this is implemented in moto is based on the region
+        for the resource backend.
+
+        You must set the `backend_region` to the region that the API request arrived from. resource_region can be set to `None`.
+
+        - Aggregated Listing -
+        This lists resources from all potential regional backends. For non-global resource types, this should collect a full
+        list of resources from all the backends, and then be able to filter from the resource region. This is because an
+        aggregator can aggregate resources from multiple regions. In moto, aggregated regions will *assume full aggregation
+        from all resources in all regions for a given resource type*.
+
+        The `backend_region` should be set to `None` for these queries, and the `resource_region` should optionally be set to
+        the `Filters` region parameter to filter out resources that reside in a specific region.
+
+        For aggregated listings, pagination logic should be set such that the next page can properly span all the region backends.
+        As such, the proper way to implement is to first obtain a full list of results from all the region backends, and then filter
+        from there. It may be valuable to make this a concatenation of the region and resource name.
+
+        :param resource_ids:  A list of resource IDs
+        :param resource_name: The individual name of a resource
+        :param limit: How many per page
+        :param next_token: The item that will page on
+        :param backend_region: The region for the backend to pull results from. Set to `None` if this is an aggregated query.
+        :param resource_region: The region for where the resources reside to pull results from. Set to `None` if this is a
+                                non-aggregated query.
+        :param aggregator: If the query is an aggregated query, *AND* the resource has "non-standard" aggregation logic (mainly, IAM),
+                                you'll need to pass aggregator used. In most cases, this should be omitted/set to `None`. See the
+                                conditional logic under `if aggregator` in the moto/iam/config.py for the IAM example.
+
+        :return: This should return a list of Dicts that have the following fields:
+            [
+                {
+                    'type': 'AWS::The AWS Config data type',
+                    'name': 'The name of the resource',
+                    'id': 'The ID of the resource',
+                    'region': 'The region of the resource -- if global, then you may want to have the calling logic pass in the
+                               aggregator region in for the resource region -- or just us-east-1 :P'
+                }
+                , ...
+            ]
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def get_config_resource(
+        self, resource_id, resource_name=None, backend_region=None, resource_region=None
+    ):
+        """For AWS Config. This will query the backend for the specific resource type configuration.
+
+        This supports both aggregated, and non-aggregated fetching -- for batched fetching -- the Config batching requests
+        will call this function N times to fetch the N objects needing to be fetched.
+
+        - Non-Aggregated Fetching -
+        This only fetches a resource config within a region. The way that this is implemented in moto is based on the region
+        for the resource backend.
+
+        You must set the `backend_region` to the region that the API request arrived from. `resource_region` should be set to `None`.
+
+        - Aggregated Fetching -
+        This fetches resources from all potential regional backends. For non-global resource types, this should collect a full
+        list of resources from all the backends, and then be able to filter from the resource region. This is because an
+        aggregator can aggregate resources from multiple regions. In moto, aggregated regions will *assume full aggregation
+        from all resources in all regions for a given resource type*.
+
+        ...
+        :param resource_id:
+        :param resource_name:
+        :param backend_region:
+        :param resource_region:
+        :return:
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+
+class CloudWatchMetricProvider(object):
+    @staticmethod
+    @abstractmethod
+    def get_cloudwatch_metrics():
+        pass
diff --git a/moto/core/models.py b/moto/core/models.py
index ac35d4ef2..48e9fb03a 100644
--- a/moto/core/models.py
+++ b/moto/core/models.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import random
 import re
 import string
 import unittest
-from abc import abstractmethod
 from collections import defaultdict
 from io import BytesIO
 from types import FunctionType
@@ -495,80 +494,6 @@ class InstanceTrackerMeta(type):
         return cls
 
 
-class BaseModel(metaclass=InstanceTrackerMeta):
-    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-        instance = super(BaseModel, cls).__new__(cls)
-        cls.instances.append(instance)
-        return instance
-
-
-# Parent class for every Model that can be instantiated by CloudFormation
-# On subclasses, implement the two methods as @staticmethod to ensure correct behaviour of the CF parser
-class CloudFormationModel(BaseModel):
-    @staticmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def cloudformation_name_type():
-        # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-name.html
-        # This must be implemented as a staticmethod with no parameters
-        # Return None for resources that do not have a name property
-        pass
-
-    @staticmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def cloudformation_type():
-        # This must be implemented as a staticmethod with no parameters
-        # See for example https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-dynamodb-table.html
-        return "AWS::SERVICE::RESOURCE"
-
-    @classmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def has_cfn_attr(cls, attr):
-        # Used for validation
-        # If a template creates an Output for an attribute that does not exist, an error should be thrown
-        return True
-
-    @classmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def create_from_cloudformation_json(
-        cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name, **kwargs
-    ):
-        # This must be implemented as a classmethod with parameters:
-        # cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
-        # Extract the resource parameters from the cloudformation json
-        # and return an instance of the resource class
-        pass
-
-    @classmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def update_from_cloudformation_json(
-        cls, original_resource, new_resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
-    ):
-        # This must be implemented as a classmethod with parameters:
-        # cls, original_resource, new_resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
-        # Extract the resource parameters from the cloudformation json,
-        # delete the old resource and return the new one. Optionally inspect
-        # the change in parameters and no-op when nothing has changed.
-        pass
-
-    @classmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def delete_from_cloudformation_json(
-        cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
-    ):
-        # This must be implemented as a classmethod with parameters:
-        # cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name
-        # Extract the resource parameters from the cloudformation json
-        # and delete the resource. Do not include a return statement.
-        pass
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def is_created(self):
-        # Verify whether the resource was created successfully
-        # Assume True after initialization
-        # Custom resources may need time after init before they are created successfully
-        return True
-
-
 class BaseBackend:
     def _reset_model_refs(self):
         # Remove all references to the models stored
@@ -703,115 +628,11 @@ class BaseBackend:
             ]
         return [endpoint_service]
 
-    def decorator(self, func=None):
-        if settings.TEST_SERVER_MODE:
-            mocked_backend = ServerModeMockAWS({"global": self})
-        else:
-            mocked_backend = MockAWS({"global": self})
-
-        if func:
-            return mocked_backend(func)
-        else:
-            return mocked_backend
-
     # def list_config_service_resources(self, resource_ids, resource_name, limit, next_token):
     #     """For AWS Config. This will list all of the resources of the given type and optional resource name and region"""
     #     raise NotImplementedError()
 
 
-class ConfigQueryModel:
-    def __init__(self, backends):
-        """Inits based on the resource type's backends (1 for each region if applicable)"""
-        self.backends = backends
-
-    def list_config_service_resources(
-        self,
-        resource_ids,
-        resource_name,
-        limit,
-        next_token,
-        backend_region=None,
-        resource_region=None,
-        aggregator=None,
-    ):
-        """For AWS Config. This will list all of the resources of the given type and optional resource name and region.
-
-        This supports both aggregated and non-aggregated listing. The following notes the difference:
-
-        - Non-Aggregated Listing -
-        This only lists resources within a region. The way that this is implemented in moto is based on the region
-        for the resource backend.
-
-        You must set the `backend_region` to the region that the API request arrived from. resource_region can be set to `None`.
-
-        - Aggregated Listing -
-        This lists resources from all potential regional backends. For non-global resource types, this should collect a full
-        list of resources from all the backends, and then be able to filter from the resource region. This is because an
-        aggregator can aggregate resources from multiple regions. In moto, aggregated regions will *assume full aggregation
-        from all resources in all regions for a given resource type*.
-
-        The `backend_region` should be set to `None` for these queries, and the `resource_region` should optionally be set to
-        the `Filters` region parameter to filter out resources that reside in a specific region.
-
-        For aggregated listings, pagination logic should be set such that the next page can properly span all the region backends.
-        As such, the proper way to implement is to first obtain a full list of results from all the region backends, and then filter
-        from there. It may be valuable to make this a concatenation of the region and resource name.
-
-        :param resource_ids:  A list of resource IDs
-        :param resource_name: The individual name of a resource
-        :param limit: How many per page
-        :param next_token: The item that will page on
-        :param backend_region: The region for the backend to pull results from. Set to `None` if this is an aggregated query.
-        :param resource_region: The region for where the resources reside to pull results from. Set to `None` if this is a
-                                non-aggregated query.
-        :param aggregator: If the query is an aggregated query, *AND* the resource has "non-standard" aggregation logic (mainly, IAM),
-                                you'll need to pass aggregator used. In most cases, this should be omitted/set to `None`. See the
-                                conditional logic under `if aggregator` in the moto/iam/config.py for the IAM example.
-
-        :return: This should return a list of Dicts that have the following fields:
-            [
-                {
-                    'type': 'AWS::The AWS Config data type',
-                    'name': 'The name of the resource',
-                    'id': 'The ID of the resource',
-                    'region': 'The region of the resource -- if global, then you may want to have the calling logic pass in the
-                               aggregator region in for the resource region -- or just us-east-1 :P'
-                }
-                , ...
-            ]
-        """
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def get_config_resource(
-        self, resource_id, resource_name=None, backend_region=None, resource_region=None
-    ):
-        """For AWS Config. This will query the backend for the specific resource type configuration.
-
-        This supports both aggregated, and non-aggregated fetching -- for batched fetching -- the Config batching requests
-        will call this function N times to fetch the N objects needing to be fetched.
-
-        - Non-Aggregated Fetching -
-        This only fetches a resource config within a region. The way that this is implemented in moto is based on the region
-        for the resource backend.
-
-        You must set the `backend_region` to the region that the API request arrived from. `resource_region` should be set to `None`.
-
-        - Aggregated Fetching -
-        This fetches resources from all potential regional backends. For non-global resource types, this should collect a full
-        list of resources from all the backends, and then be able to filter from the resource region. This is because an
-        aggregator can aggregate resources from multiple regions. In moto, aggregated regions will *assume full aggregation
-        from all resources in all regions for a given resource type*.
-
-        ...
-        :param resource_id:
-        :param resource_name:
-        :param backend_region:
-        :param resource_region:
-        :return:
-        """
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-
 class base_decorator:
     mock_backend = MockAWS
 
@@ -828,10 +649,3 @@ class base_decorator:
             return mocked_backend(func)
         else:
             return mocked_backend
-
-
-class CloudWatchMetricProvider(object):
-    @staticmethod
-    @abstractmethod
-    def get_cloudwatch_metrics():
-        pass
diff --git a/moto/dynamodb_v20111205/__init__.py b/moto/dynamodb_v20111205/__init__.py
index 11040bb8d..641024f24 100644
--- a/moto/dynamodb_v20111205/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/dynamodb_v20111205/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import dynamodb_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 """
 An older API version of DynamoDB.
@@ -6,4 +7,4 @@ Please see the corresponding tests (tests/test_dynamodb_v20111205) on how to inv
 """
 
 dynamodb_backends = {"global": dynamodb_backend}
-mock_dynamodb = dynamodb_backend.decorator
+mock_dynamodb = base_decorator(dynamodb_backend)
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/core.py b/moto/ec2/models/core.py
index c4d9445cb..6712b84b3 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/core.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/core.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from moto.core.models import BaseModel
+from moto.core import BaseModel
 
 from ..exceptions import FilterNotImplementedError
 
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/elastic_block_store.py b/moto/ec2/models/elastic_block_store.py
index 5722933fb..a300c403a 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/elastic_block_store.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/elastic_block_store.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import get_account_id, CloudFormationModel
 from moto.kms import kms_backends
 from moto.packages.boto.ec2.blockdevicemapping import BlockDeviceType
 from ..exceptions import (
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/elastic_network_interfaces.py b/moto/ec2/models/elastic_network_interfaces.py
index f9863a21d..63ff55b3a 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/elastic_network_interfaces.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/elastic_network_interfaces.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import get_account_id, CloudFormationModel
 from ..exceptions import InvalidNetworkAttachmentIdError, InvalidNetworkInterfaceIdError
 from .core import TaggedEC2Resource
 from .security_groups import SecurityGroup
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/flow_logs.py b/moto/ec2/models/flow_logs.py
index bf3c68f9c..5aa94e32f 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/flow_logs.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/flow_logs.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import itertools
 from collections import defaultdict
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from ..exceptions import (
     FlowLogAlreadyExists,
     InvalidAggregationIntervalParameterError,
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/iam_instance_profile.py b/moto/ec2/models/iam_instance_profile.py
index 651cf4cd6..6e16dc799 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/iam_instance_profile.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/iam_instance_profile.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from ..exceptions import (
     IncorrectStateIamProfileAssociationError,
     InvalidAssociationIDIamProfileAssociationError,
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/instances.py b/moto/ec2/models/instances.py
index c2fcfebe5..e613c3aa0 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/instances.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/instances.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from collections import OrderedDict
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from moto.core.utils import camelcase_to_underscores
 from moto.packages.boto.ec2.blockdevicemapping import BlockDeviceMapping
 from moto.packages.boto.ec2.instance import Instance as BotoInstance, Reservation
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/nat_gateways.py b/moto/ec2/models/nat_gateways.py
index f26b4c95c..a7035deed 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/nat_gateways.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/nat_gateways.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from moto.core.utils import iso_8601_datetime_with_milliseconds
 from .core import TaggedEC2Resource
 from ..utils import random_nat_gateway_id, random_private_ip
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/security_groups.py b/moto/ec2/models/security_groups.py
index 9ab185d80..e9a5d33df 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/security_groups.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/security_groups.py
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ import itertools
 import json
 from collections import defaultdict
 
-from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import get_account_id, CloudFormationModel
 from moto.core.utils import aws_api_matches
 from ..exceptions import (
     DependencyViolationError,
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/spot_requests.py b/moto/ec2/models/spot_requests.py
index 7dc8d59cd..0c264e676 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/spot_requests.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/spot_requests.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 
-from moto.core.models import Model, CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core.common_models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core.models import Model
 from moto.packages.boto.ec2.launchspecification import LaunchSpecification
 from moto.packages.boto.ec2.spotinstancerequest import (
     SpotInstanceRequest as BotoSpotRequest,
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/subnets.py b/moto/ec2/models/subnets.py
index 459328429..ec5b96a7c 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/subnets.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/subnets.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import itertools
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from ..exceptions import (
     GenericInvalidParameterValueError,
     InvalidAvailabilityZoneError,
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/vpc_peering_connections.py b/moto/ec2/models/vpc_peering_connections.py
index 620052fc6..f656ce9b7 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/vpc_peering_connections.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/vpc_peering_connections.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import weakref
 from collections import defaultdict
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from ..exceptions import (
     InvalidVPCPeeringConnectionIdError,
     InvalidVPCPeeringConnectionStateTransitionError,
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/vpc_service_configuration.py b/moto/ec2/models/vpc_service_configuration.py
index 237945aec..df47a3bf3 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/vpc_service_configuration.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/vpc_service_configuration.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from moto.core.utils import get_random_hex
 from .core import TaggedEC2Resource
 from ..exceptions import UnknownVpcEndpointService
diff --git a/moto/ec2/models/vpcs.py b/moto/ec2/models/vpcs.py
index 671da08c9..c329a428f 100644
--- a/moto/ec2/models/vpcs.py
+++ b/moto/ec2/models/vpcs.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from collections import defaultdict
 from operator import itemgetter
 
 from moto.core import get_account_id
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from .core import TaggedEC2Resource
 from ..exceptions import (
     CidrLimitExceeded,
diff --git a/moto/glue/__init__.py b/moto/glue/__init__.py
index 204b20892..949359b94 100644
--- a/moto/glue/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/glue/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import glue_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 glue_backends = {"global": glue_backend}
-mock_glue = glue_backend.decorator
+mock_glue = base_decorator(glue_backends)
diff --git a/moto/iam/__init__.py b/moto/iam/__init__.py
index 81b188d96..7131d1370 100644
--- a/moto/iam/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/iam/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import iam_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 iam_backends = {"global": iam_backend}
-mock_iam = iam_backend.decorator
+mock_iam = base_decorator(iam_backends)
diff --git a/moto/iam/config.py b/moto/iam/config.py
index cf116f945..357907db9 100644
--- a/moto/iam/config.py
+++ b/moto/iam/config.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import boto3
 from moto.core.exceptions import InvalidNextTokenException
-from moto.core.models import ConfigQueryModel
+from moto.core.common_models import ConfigQueryModel
 from moto.iam import iam_backends
 
 
diff --git a/moto/logs/models.py b/moto/logs/models.py
index d391714a3..84fa9f4e8 100644
--- a/moto/logs/models.py
+++ b/moto/logs/models.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import uuid
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
 from moto.core import get_account_id, BaseBackend, BaseModel
-from moto.core.models import CloudFormationModel
+from moto.core import CloudFormationModel
 from moto.core.utils import unix_time_millis, BackendDict
 from moto.utilities.paginator import paginate
 from moto.logs.metric_filters import MetricFilters
diff --git a/moto/route53/__init__.py b/moto/route53/__init__.py
index 8ba7fcd8a..d400bae56 100644
--- a/moto/route53/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/route53/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import route53_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 route53_backends = {"global": route53_backend}
-mock_route53 = route53_backend.decorator
+mock_route53 = base_decorator(route53_backends)
diff --git a/moto/s3/__init__.py b/moto/s3/__init__.py
index ccd6ccb7e..190887893 100644
--- a/moto/s3/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/s3/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import s3_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 s3_backends = {"global": s3_backend}
-mock_s3 = s3_backend.decorator
+mock_s3 = base_decorator(s3_backends)
diff --git a/moto/s3/config.py b/moto/s3/config.py
index 0c8ed45fa..98bdfe2dd 100644
--- a/moto/s3/config.py
+++ b/moto/s3/config.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import json
 
 from moto.core.exceptions import InvalidNextTokenException
-from moto.core.models import ConfigQueryModel
+from moto.core.common_models import ConfigQueryModel
 from moto.s3 import s3_backends
 
 
diff --git a/moto/s3control/config.py b/moto/s3control/config.py
index 612cc1c9f..10914a21f 100644
--- a/moto/s3control/config.py
+++ b/moto/s3control/config.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import time
 from boto3 import Session
 
 from moto.core.exceptions import InvalidNextTokenException
-from moto.core.models import ConfigQueryModel
+from moto.core.common_models import ConfigQueryModel
 from moto.s3control import s3control_backends
 from moto.s3.models import get_moto_s3_account_id
 
diff --git a/moto/sagemaker/__init__.py b/moto/sagemaker/__init__.py
index afd123765..71ccc5479 100644
--- a/moto/sagemaker/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/sagemaker/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import sagemaker_backends
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 sagemaker_backend = sagemaker_backends["us-east-1"]
-mock_sagemaker = sagemaker_backend.decorator
+mock_sagemaker = base_decorator(sagemaker_backends)
diff --git a/moto/ses/__init__.py b/moto/ses/__init__.py
index 61a4863f8..6821e4959 100644
--- a/moto/ses/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/ses/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import ses_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 ses_backends = {"global": ses_backend}
-mock_ses = ses_backend.decorator
+mock_ses = base_decorator(ses_backends)
diff --git a/moto/sts/__init__.py b/moto/sts/__init__.py
index 062096832..fd5095688 100644
--- a/moto/sts/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/sts/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import sts_backend
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 sts_backends = {"global": sts_backend}
-mock_sts = sts_backend.decorator
+mock_sts = base_decorator(sts_backends)
diff --git a/moto/transcribe/__init__.py b/moto/transcribe/__init__.py
index c3600402a..0cde03003 100644
--- a/moto/transcribe/__init__.py
+++ b/moto/transcribe/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from .models import transcribe_backends
+from ..core.models import base_decorator
 
 transcribe_backend = transcribe_backends["us-east-1"]
-mock_transcribe = transcribe_backend.decorator
+mock_transcribe = base_decorator(transcribe_backends)