Tag: AWS Control Tower

Having a multi account strategy is a best practice for achieving higher isolation of resources in AWS. It helps you meet regulatory and compliance needs, track operational costs, and add an extra layer of security. AWS Control Tower uses AWS best practices to establish a well-architected, multi-account baseline across your AWS accounts. For more information […]

AWS Control Tower enables customers of all sizes to implement a multi-account strategy built on AWS Organizations. One of the key features of AWS Organizations is consolidated billing, which rolls up all of the charges incurred in member accounts to the AWS Organizations management account. There, costs can be viewed and analyzed in AWS Cost […]

AWS Control Tower provides a ready-to-use native integration with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to manage users, roles, and multi-account access. Some customers’ organizations have more complex SSO requirements, including integrating with external identity providers to handle authentication and authorization. Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management service that is built for the cloud, but is […]

Along with adopting and managing a multi-account structure, customers must also manage user authentication and authorization. Customers who use a multi-account structure governed by AWS Control Tower require a centralized system to manage user authentication and authorization. AWS Control Tower enables customers to manage and govern a multi-account structure. After you have launched AWS Control […]

In this blog post, I show you how to configure CloudCheckr CMx for your AWS Control Tower managed environment. Using this solution you can manage and optimize multiple AWS accounts using a Multi Account View in CloudCheckr CMx.

As of December 2022, to integrate Datadog monitoring into your multi-account environment, we now recommend using Datadog’s Account Factory customization. To learn how to use Account Factory customization to deploy Datadog’s AWS Integration into new accounts, visit the most recent blog post. Operational intelligence in a cloud environment helps organizations gain in-depth visibility into resources […]

AWS Control Tower enables you to create new AWS accounts in your AWS Organization with AWS-recommended best practices and guardrails in place. Our customers and partners often ask for ways to automate the execution of some customizations specific to their organization on the creation of a new AWS account. This is especially true for customers […]

As businesses grow, the recommended approach in AWS is to move from one account to a multi-account environment. Using an AWS account as the isolation boundary, the multi-account approach enables customers to have the flexibility to isolate resources. You might select this option to separate applications that have different security requirements or manage service limits. […]

Blog post about how to implement Alert Logic MDR integration with AWS Control Tower

The enterprise customers I work with use AWS Control Tower to set up and govern their secure multi-account AWS environments. They want to enable their technology users to find, buy, and immediately start using software from AWS Marketplace to run on their environments. At the same time, they also want to restrict AWS Marketplace purchases […]