Tag: AWS Organizations

When managing multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations organization, it’s important to implement central access controls that govern both identities and resources. These controls are essential for ensuring security, compliance, and scalability across your environment. AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs), resource control policies (RCPs), and declarative policies enable you to centrally configure and manage […]

Introduction AWS Organizations provides the capability to centrally manage and govern your AWS environment. As an organization, you can delegate administration of specific AWS services integrated with AWS Organizations to authorized individuals or teams. Implementing effective controls for these delegated administrators is essential to ensuring the security, compliance, and operational efficiency of your AWS environment. […]

December 24, 2024: This post was republished to update terminology for AWS RAM resource shares and to update links. AWS customers use AWS Organizations as the basis of a multi-account AWS environment as defined by the Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts AWS Whitepaper. Organizations is an AWS service that enables you to centrally […]

Keeping your AWS infrastructure up-to-date and secure is a critical part of maintaining a robust and reliable cloud environment. AWS Systems Manager’s patching capabilities are a powerful tool in this effort, allowing you to automatically apply the latest security updates and bug fixes to your managed nodes, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, on-premises […]

AWS Organizations provides capabilities for AWS customers to centrally manage accounts in their multi-account environment. As the business landscape evolves, customers may need to close multiple AWS accounts or an entire organization. This could take place during mergers and acquisitions, to support cleanup efforts which reduce cost from unused resources, or decommissioning a venture or […]

Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]

Detecting security risks and investigating the corresponding findings is essential for protecting your AWS environment from potential threats, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and resources for your business needs. AWS provides a range of governance and security services such as AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Config along with many others, […]

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. AWS offers tools and services designed to help […]

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) offer organizations the opportunity to scale operations, diversify product lines, and capture new markets. However, they come with a set of challenges, such as the nuances of integrating legacy IT systems, complying with stringent regulations, and maintaining business continuity, etc. Eliminating the redundancy of resources and optimizing processes to bring consistency […]

With numerous AWS accounts in an organization, receiving an external security finding like a vulnerability assessment or pen test report impacting multiple resources can be challenging. Without a centralized resource viewing and search capability, identifying the affected resources require switching and inspecting each account individually, which is time-consuming and inefficient. Security vulnerabilities are time-sensitive, and […]