Category: Enterprise governance and control

Introduction Organizations using AWS Control Tower to govern their multi-account environments face a persistent challenge: when AWS CloudFormation deployments fail due to proactive control violations, teams receive minimal information about why the failure occurred or how to fix it. This lack of visibility leads to: Delayed deployments as developers struggle to understand cryptic error messages […]

As organizations scale their AWS environments, managing infrastructure consistently while enabling team autonomy becomes increasingly challenging. Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) and AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) both extend AWS Control Tower to help customers manage AWS environments at scale, offering complementary strengths. Many AWS customers struggle to balance centralized security governance with […]

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In today’s cloud-driven landscape, development sandboxes have become enablers of innovation, offering safe environments for experimentation and testing. However, as organizations scale, these sandbox environments often grow increasingly complex and difficult to manage. Unchecked, this complexity can lead to escalating costs from abandoned resources, increased security risks, and diminished productivity—undermining the very benefits sandboxes are […]

The build and rollout of hardened and certified operating systems (OS) is an imperative of any Cloud Operations (CloudOps) or Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) team within an organization. The guideline and security controls to certify the images come from the respective teams within your organization who, in turn, refer to the popular industry wide […]

AWS Control Tower is the easiest way to set up and govern a security, multi-account AWS environment. A key feature of AWS Control Tower is to deploy and manage controls at scale across an entire AWS Organizations. These controls are categorized based on their behavior and guidance. The behavior of each control is one of […]

Introduction When I take my car in for service for a simple oil change, the technician often reads off a litany of other services my car needs that I had put off since the previous service (and maybe the service before that, too). I tend to wait for the “check engine” light to come on […]

As discussed in this blog post, AWS sees organizations with well-defined, tracked and aligned business key performance indicators (KPIs) thrive in their cloud transformation journey. However, it is a challenge to define and track these KPIs. Even when organizations align to track outcomes and there is value in doing so, some encounter difficulties focusing on […]

Introduction A security or data loss incident can lead to both financial and reputational losses. Maintaining security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and you (our customer), where AWS is responsible for “Security of the Cloud” and you are responsible for “Security in the Cloud”. However, security in the cloud has a much […]

Do you or your organization need solutions to help reach your Cloud Governance objectives as you migrate to AWS? How do you stay agile and innovate faster while staying secure?Designing and building a landing zone is a key step in the migration journey to the AWS cloud. A well-architected landing zone helps accelerate migration and […]