The AWS Landing Zone Accelerator deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global compliance frameworks. With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. When used in coordination with other AWS services, it provides a comprehensive low-code solution across 35+ AWS services.

This solution is architected to align with AWS best practices and in conformance with multiple, global compliance frameworks. When used in coordination with services such as AWS Control Tower, the Landing Zone Accelerator provides a comprehensive no-code solution across 35+ AWS services to manage and govern a multi-account environment built to support customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements. This implementation helps you establish platform readiness with security, compliance, and operational capabilities.

This solution is provided as an open-source project that is built using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). You install directly into your environment giving you full access to the infrastructure as code (IaC) solution. Through a simplified set of configuration files, you are able to configure additional functionality, guardrails and security services (eg. AWS Managed Config Rules, and AWS SecurityHub), manage your foundational networking topology (eg. VPCs, Transit Gateways, and Network Firewall), and generate additional workload accounts using the AWS Control Tower Account Factory.

This solution can also support non-standard AWS partitions, including AWS GovCloud (US), and the US Secret and Top Secret regions.

You can use configurations of this solution to support alignment with the following regions and industries:

Regions:

• AWS opt-in Regions
• Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Cloud Medium
• United Kingdom (UK) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• United States (US) Federal and Department of Defense (DoD)

Industries:

• Education
• Elections
• Finance
• Healthcare
• National Security, Defence, and National Law Enforcement
• US aerospace
• US state and local government Central IT