AWS Landing Zone & Foundation Services

Build the AWS Foundation You Can Scale On

Every AWS estate eventually needs the foundation it did not start with. Accounts accumulate without structure. Security policy drifts. Audit and logging become ad hoc. The cost of retrofitting climbs with every new workload. The organizations that pay the most for their foundation are the ones who deferred the decision longest.

Intelligent Visibility's AWS Landing Zone & Foundation service delivers the multi-account architecture, governance, and operational model that turn AWS from an account sprawl problem into a platform.

Our Approach

We build AWS foundations using AWS Control Tower as the landing zone primitive, extended with the supporting services most enterprises need:

• Account strategy: OU structure designed around how you actually operate (environment, business unit, compliance scope)
• Identity: IAM Identity Center integrated with your IdP (Okta, Entra ID, Ping), permission sets scoped to roles
• Networking: Transit Gateway backbone, centralized egress where warranted, shared VPC patterns, Route 53 Resolver
• Logging and audit: Centralized CloudTrail, Config, and VPC Flow Logs in a dedicated log archive account
• Security baselines: GuardDuty, Security Hub (AWS FSBP, CIS, PCI, HIPAA), Config conformance packs, SCPs
• Cost governance: Budgets at account and OU level, Cost Anomaly Detection, tagging policy enforcement
• Account Factory: Provisioning via AFT or Control Tower Account Factory with standardized baselines

Every decision is documented with rationale. A new engineer reading the architecture docs six months later will understand why choices were made.

Why Intelligent Visibility

• Foundation engineering is a core practice, not a side engagement. Patterns are battle-tested.
• AWS-native first. Control Tower and Account Factory for the core, Terraform for the gaps. We don't rebuild what AWS already provides.
• Documented, not opaque. Every architectural decision captured with rationale so the foundation is yours to own, modify, and extend.
• Aegis continuity. The engineers who build the foundation can operate it under our Aegis managed services model, or hand off cleanly to your team.
• Decision framework clarity. Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, or DIY Organizations + Terraform depending on fit. Control Tower is the default for good reasons, and we tell you when it isn't.

What This Service Includes

• Current-state assessment for existing estates: account inventory, IAM posture, network topology, logging, security baseline, cost visibility
• Target architecture: landing zone design, OU structure, identity, networking, logging and audit, security baseline, cost governance
• Control Tower deployment with organization structure and management account configuration
• Organizations setup with Service Control Policies for preventive guardrails
• IAM Identity Center integrated with your IdP, permission sets, and least-privilege baselines
• Centralized logging (CloudTrail, Config, VPC Flow Logs) in a dedicated log archive account
• Security baseline: GuardDuty organization-wide, Security Hub aggregation, Config conformance packs
• Network foundation: Transit Gateway, centralized egress, Route 53 Resolver (standalone or integrated with AWS Cloud On-Ramp)
• Cost governance: Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, tagging policy enforcement
• Account Factory (AFT or Control Tower) with standardized baselines
• For existing estates: progressive account enrollment and gap remediation
• Runbook and operations documentation, handoff to customer ops, Aegis, or co-managed model

Outcomes

• Multi-account AWS foundation with consistent governance, security, and network architecture
• Identity centralized through IAM Identity Center with least-privilege baselines
• Audit and logging centralized, retained per compliance, aggregable for investigations
• Security baselines enforced organization-wide with findings aggregated for action
• Cost visibility by account, OU, and tag, with anomaly detection
• New accounts provisioned with guardrails applied automatically
• Documented architecture you and future hires can understand and extend

Ideal For

• Organizations starting their AWS journey who want to build correctly from the beginning
• Organizations inheriting unstructured AWS estates who need to retrofit a foundation without taking production down
• Organizations facing compliance or audit requirements their current AWS setup cannot meet
• Organizations planning major AWS expansions (VMware exit, data center migration, acquisition integration) where incoming workloads need a foundation to land on