AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment

AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment

  • June 25, 2019
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AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment

Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up a secure environment for teams to provision development and production accounts in alignment with our recommendations and best practices.

AWS Control Tower Today we are announcing general availability of AWS Control Tower. This service automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, well-architected, and ready to use. Control Tower incorporates the knowledge that AWS Professional Service has gained over the course of thousands of successful customer engagements, and also draws from the recommendations found in our whitepapers, documentation, the Well-Architected Framework, and training.

The guidance offered by Control Tower is opinionated and prescriptive, and is designed to accelerate your cloud journey! AWS Control Tower builds on multiple AWS services including AWS Organizations, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) (including Service Control Policies), AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Service Catalog. You get a unified experience built around a collection of workflows, dashboards, and setup steps.

AWS Control Tower automates a landing zone to set up a baseline environment that includes:

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