Category: Enterprise governance and control

The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes key concepts and architectural best practices that help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads in the cloud. An AWS Well-Architected Review includes questions around the AWS Well-Architected Framework that can help application owners ensure that their workloads are following best practices. The […]

Enterprise customers often ask how they can minimize risk when they’re developing and testing a landing zone configuration. They also want to know how they can promote code between multiple landing zones. ­AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, called a landing zone. Customers who […]

Solutions providers who engage with their end customers in a resale arrangement must manage different business models and support delivery models. AWS Organizations makes it possible to build the right account structure to support a resale arrangement. Monthly end-customer invoicing often poses a huge challenge in a shared resale arrangement, where you need to know […]

Administrators and developers are always balancing the need for security with the need to move quickly. Recently, AWS published the Management and Governance Lens, an extension of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The M&G Lens provides a set of prescriptive guidance to help customers build both securely and with speed. From this work, we learn about how to […]

Most of my enterprise customers have the need to allow their users to execute self-service operational tasks while restricting access to a minimum set of services. With AWS Service Catalog, you can provision pre-approved products, when combined with AWS Service Catalog service actions, you can provide simple predefined actions associated with the AWS Service Catalog […]

This is the third post in our series about multi-account management. In the first post, Governance, risk, and compliance when establishing your cloud presence, we focus on design considerations for managing in a cloud environment. Our second post, Best Practices for Organizational Units with AWS Organizations, provides guidance for a production-ready organizational unit (OU) structure when creating […]

Enterprise customers with multiple AWS accounts want to subscribe once to an AWS Marketplace product and have all accounts in the organization deploy AWS Marketplace solutions without needing each account to subscribe first. AWS Control Tower helps customers create accounts and manage many account configurations and best practices. AWS Service Catalog helps customers deploy AWS […]

AWS Control Tower is a managed AWS service that automates the creation of a multi-account AWS environment based upon the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It builds the environment using AWS best practices for security and management services. In this blog post, we’ll show how a managed service provider can use AWS Control Tower and AWS Service […]

Do you want to bring your eligible SQL Server licenses to use on AWS? Do you have SQL Server licenses but not accompanying Windows Server licenses? Are you worried that you do not have Software Assurance for SQL Server? You can now run license included Windows Server instances on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts, which makes […]

AWS Organizations provides features customers can use to manage their AWS environment across accounts. When paired with other AWS services, AWS Organizations helps you manage permissions, create and share resources, govern your environment, and centrally control your security requirements. Here’s what the team has been up to since our virtual 2020 re:Invent season. Use attribute-based […]