Tag: AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations simplifies multi-account governance for customers with tools to centrally manage their AWS accounts and offers two feature modes all features and consolidated billing. With all features enabled, the default and preferred approach, customers can centrally manage other AWS services that are integrated with AWS Organizations and apply organization-wide controls with the management policies. […]

Why invest in a multi-account cloud foundation? Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) usually start with a single account when setting up their Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. They typically want to get going quickly and maintain agility. Starting small and focusing on business needs, seems to make the most sense. However, even as a small […]

As you continue to run your business-critical workloads in hybrid environments, you’ll most likely face the challenges of license management of products, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM due to limited visibility and governance. You’ll most likely eventually over-provision licenses to avoid the headache with third-party license providers or under-provisioning licenses, only to face […]

AWS Organizations helps you centrally manage and govern multiple AWS accounts within AWS. You can manage organization structure, add and remove accounts, define configuration using policies, handle consolidated billing, and control multi-account features of integrated AWS services. As your environment grows, your administrators have to manage more accounts and policies which often requires coordination between […]

When you are building workloads on AWS, you are encouraged to follow a multi-account strategy to isolate workloads into multiple AWS accounts. You can do this to separate your accounts based on different business units, different stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) or another manner that is suitable for your organization’s needs. Whichever approach […]

As customers become more mature in the cloud, they will start to investigate how they can utilize additional AWS services in order to meet their goals. In many cases the initial phase will involve some research and testing of the service before deploying it across their cloud environment. For customers that may need to maintain […]

In this post, we will show how you can deploy AWS Config custom rules across accounts in your organization, leveraging the Rules Development Kit (RDK), an open source development kit designed to support intuitive and efficient “Compliance-as-Code” workflows. With AWS Config custom rules, you can define custom logic for the desired configuration state of your […]

The AWS CDK makes it easy to deploy an application to the AWS Cloud. But first you must “bootstrap” the target AWS account. You can bootstrap an AWS account by using the AWS CDK CLI and running cdk bootstrap. This is great for teams that have access to AWS accounts, or only need to bootstrap […]

Introduction For enterprises, one of the larger obstacles when adopting and migrating to the cloud is how to establish a well-thought-out cloud governance model to meet internal or regulatory compliance requirements. One common inhibitor in the field is that enterprises seek to come up with a one-size-fits-all approach to cloud governance for all workloads. We […]

Patch Management is a critical operation that every organization wants to prioritize. This becomes tedious and challenging if an enterprise operates on a platform-consumer or hub-spoke model. An example of this would be a multi-account environment with hundreds of accounts and thousands of users using applications hosted in AWS. Different application owners have different requirements […]