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Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

Deploy a cloud foundation to support highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements

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Overview

The Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution deploys a foundational set of capabilities that is designed to align with AWS best practices and multiple global compliance frameworks. With this AWS Solution, you can better manage and govern your multi-account environment that have highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements. When used in coordination with other AWS services, it provides a comprehensive, low-code solution across more than 35 AWS services.

Note: This solution will not, by itself, make you compliant. It provides the foundational infrastructure from which additional complementary solutions can be integrated.

Benefits

Automatically set up a cloud environment suitable for hosting secure workloads. You can deploy this solution in all AWS Regions. This helps you maintain consistency of your operations and governance across AWS standard Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and other non-standard partitions in AWS.
Deploy this solution in an AWS Region suitable for your data classification, and use Amazon Macie to provide sensitive data detection in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This solution also helps you deploy, operate, and govern a centrally managed encryption strategy using AWS Key Management System (AWS KMS).
Leverage a foundational infrastructure for deploying mission-critical workloads across a centrally governed multi-account environment.

How it works

You can automatically deploy this architecture using the implementation guide and the accompanying AWS CloudFormation template.

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About this deployment

  • Version: 1.13.0

  • Released: 8/2025

  • Author: AWS

  • Est. deployment time: 50 mins

  • Estimated cost: See details

  • AWS support: See details

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