Category: AWS Organizations

AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way for you to set up and govern your AWS environment, or landing zone, following prescriptive AWS best practices managed on your behalf. AWS Control Tower orchestrates multiple AWS services (AWS Organizations, AWS CloudFormation StackSets, Amazon S3, AWS Single Sign-On, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail) to build a landing zone […]

Managing AWS billing, support and service team notifications, and potential security events are critical for customers to ensure security, cost optimization and operational monitoring for their AWS deployments. Alternate contacts allow us to contact another person about issues with your account at the right time, even if you’re unavailable. AWS will send you operational notifications such […]

Customers often use AWS accounts as a boundary to segregate their workloads, environments, business units, compliance requirements, or any type of logical isolation that suits their business. An AWS account serves as a hard boundary by design – each account is its own logical entity with controls, limits, and guardrails. Large customers typically have many […]

When running your applications on AWS, the number of resources you use increases as the demand of your applications keeps growing. Eventually, keeping track of your AWS resources and the relationships between them becomes challenging from a governance perspective. AWS Config lets you more easily assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. […]

AWS Identity offers a set of features that let customers apply preventive controls to their AWS environment. This includes AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs). For you to achieve common preventive controls, SCPs provide preventative enforcement by offering central control over the maximum available permissions for all accounts in your organization. SCPs affect all users and roles […]

Customers who wanted to quickly set up a secure, compliant, multi-account AWS environment had adopted AWS Landing Zone solution (ALZ). To reduce the burden of managing this ALZ, AWS has announced a managed service – AWS Control Tower (Control Tower). AWS Control Tower creates your landing zone using AWS Organizations, thereby bringing together ongoing account […]

Customers start their cloud journey with one AWS account, and over time they deploy many resources within it before utilizing more accounts. Prior to the launch of AWS Organizations in 2017, customers received a consolidated bill for all of these accounts. The launch of AWS Organizations meant these customers were provided with an organization that […]

Important Update: As of 23 Nov 2020 the Security Hub service was updated to support direct integration with AWS Organizations. Lifecycle events are no longer the recommended way to enable Security Hub. Please utilize Security Hub’s native integration with AWS Organizations. You can also refer to this blog, which walks through how to enable GuardDuty […]

AWS Organizations provides features that customers can utilize 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 our team has been up to since Spring 2021. Programmatically manage alternate contacts […]

AWS lets us assign metadata to the AWS resources in the form of tags. Each tag is a simple label consisting of a customer-defined key and a value that makes it easier to manage, search for, and filter AWS resources. Tagging can be an effective scaling mechanism for implementing cloud management and governance strategies. Tags […]