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AWS Control Tower & Landing zone

By mikado on September 28, 2022December 2, 2022

Control Tower

  • Control Tower creates a well-architected multi-account baseline based on best practices: Landing Zone
  • Root user in the management account can perfom actions that guardrails would disallow

Landing Zone

LZ is a well-architected multi-account baseline

  • Root OU contains:
    • Management Account

  • Security OU with:
    • Audit account
    • Log Archive Account

  • Sandbox OU with:
    • Dev/Test Accounts

  • Production OU with:
    • Production Accounts

Directory source

  • SSO (single Sign-On)
  • SAML 2.0 IdP
  • Microsoft AD

Guardrails – for governance & compliance

Preventive Guardrails

  • Disallow API actions using SCPs (Service Control Policies)

Detective Guardrails

  • Are implemented using AWS Config rules and Lambda functions
  • Monitor and govern compliance

WAF (Well Architected Framework) & Multi-account env ORGANIZATION

  • Organization Units
  • Account structure
  • Governance
  • Network
  • Security configurations

  • AWS Organization & Accounts Structure
  • Automated Delivery Pipeline
  • Identity & Access Management
  • Logging & Monitoring
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Data Protection
  • Incident Response
  • Cost Governance & Control
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