Landing Zone for regulated industries with AWS Control Tower

Our professional services offering includes the following activities (Scope of Work):

Discovery and Assessment: We will work with you understanding your requirements, goals, challenges and assess your existing infrastructure, applications and security posture. Additionally, we will analyze the data privacy requirements specified in GDPR as well as various regulatory demands (such as BAIT, VAIT, KRITIS, etc.).

Design and Architecture: Based on the discovery and assessment, we will design a Landing Zone architecture that will include the following components:

• Security observation: Assess the current state of your security posture, gaining valuable insights into potential vulnerabilities and threats. It allows you to automatically respond to security issues in alignment with regulatory standards like BSI C5, ensuring prompt and compliant action. Monitor your security posture through intuitive dashboards powered by Quicksight, Splunk, and Datadog, enabling real-time visibility into your system's security health.
• Auditing pipeline: Efficiently gather evidence and generate comprehensive assessment reports, streamlining your auditing process and investing your time effectively. Generated reports and evidence are based on regulations such as GDPR, BAIT, VAIT, KRITIS.
• Network and security architecture: This ensures that your AWS workloads are isolated and protected from external threats, while allowing for secure and scalable internal and external communication.
• Access & Identity Management: This allows you to control access to your AWS accounts and resources, ensuring that only authorized users and resources can access the data which they are explicitly allowed for.
• Data Protection Monitoring: You gain visibility to your data protection, threat landscape, vulnerability exposure, key and certificate management, so that you can prove your compliance status to your auditors.
• Data Privacy: Have full control over who can access your data and what level of access they have. We will enable you to establish boundaries and implement user-based and resource-based policies to create a robust data privacy setting. Addtionally, we will assist you setting up an encryption strategy based on regulatory requirements you have to comply to.

Implementation and Deployment: We will implement and deploy the Landing Zone architecture, following the best practices and standards in a DevSecOps fashion using AWS Control Tower Terraform Framework. This incorporates the following:

• Security Backbone Implementation: Leveraging the power of AWS fully managed services such as Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config and KMS, our solution establishes a robust security backbone as aforementioned. This enables proactive threat and vulnerability detection, enhancing the overall security posture of your cloud environment.
• Cost Management and Monitoring: We incorporate a cost management solution that includes monitoring and alerting capabilities through the use of Cost Explorer and AWS Cost and Usage Report Database. Additionally, you will have access to enterprise-grade dashboards powered by QuickSight, enabling you to gain valuable insights into your AWS spending, reduce waste and monitor your cloud resources in a central place. This enables you to forecast and plan your AWS spending more effectively.
• CI/CD Integration: Seamlessly integrate your existing CI/CD tooling with the Landing Zone, simplifying the deployment of your applications. This optional service offers a smooth and hassle-free migration experience.

Training and Documentation: Training and documentation to your team, ensuring that they understand the Landing Zone architecture, implementation details and configuration options. We will also provide guidance and best practices for managing and optimizing the Landing Zone.

Support and Optimization (optional): We can provide ongoing support and optimization for the Landing Zone, ensuring that it remains secure, compliant, and cost-effective as needed. We can also monitor your infrastructure, by providing recommendations regarding performance and usage, further improvement, and implement the changes as needed.

Our professional services offering will deliver the following artifacts(Deliverables):

• Discovery and Assessment Report (if applicable)
• Landing Zone Architecture Design (incl. design diagrams and implementation plan)
• Implementation and Deployment Guide (incl. Infrastructure as Code templates)
• Well-Architected Summary Report
• Training and Documentation Materials
• Support and Optimization Plan