About AWS Control Tower
A service to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone based on best practices and enables governance using a catalog of pre-packaged controls for security, operations, and compliance.
AWS Control Tower is a service from Amazon Web Services designed for organizations that need to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It automates the creation of a 'landing zone' based on AWS best practices, which includes a multi-account structure, identity and access management, and centralized logging. The service provides a catalog of over 750 pre-configured controls (guardrails) to enforce policies for security, operations, and compliance across all accounts. Key features include an Account Factory for provisioning new, compliant accounts and a centralized dashboard for visibility into compliance status. AWS Control Tower itself has no additional charge; users pay for the underlying AWS services it configures, such as AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail. It is designed for cloud administrators and architects to ensure that distributed teams can operate with agility while adhering to central governance policies.
Pros & Cons
- Automates the setup of a secure, multi-account AWS environment based on best practices, reducing setup time.
- Provides centralized governance and policy enforcement across all AWS accounts within an organization.
- Simplifies the provisioning of new, compliant accounts through a standardized Account Factory.
- Offers a large, pre-packaged catalog of controls for security, operations, and compliance.
- While the service itself is free, it enables other AWS services which incur costs that can be complex to forecast, especially with ephemeral workloads.
- Initial setup and understanding the interaction between the landing zone, OUs, and controls can have a learning curve for new users.
Features
Key features
Sets up a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment based on security and compliance best practices.
Automates the provisioning of new, standardized AWS accounts using configurable templates.
Provides a library of over 750 pre-packaged controls to enforce policies for security, operations, and compliance.
Enforces policies and detects violations across all accounts in an AWS Organization from a single location.
Offers continuous visibility into the compliance posture of the entire AWS environment.
Additional features
Configures federated access to governed AWS accounts with automated groups and permission sets.
Utilizes AWS CloudTrail to track actions and API activity across all accounts, storing logs in a central S3 bucket.
Tracks resource configurations and powers detective controls to identify non-compliance.
Uses AWS CloudFormation Hooks to identify and block the deployment of non-compliant resources before they are provisioned.
Continuously monitors deployed resources for nonconformance with established policies.
Prevents deployment of resources that do not conform to policies using Service Control Policies (SCPs).
Allows organizations to define and implement their own custom resources and requirements for new accounts.
Integrates with third-party software solutions available from the AWS Marketplace.
Implements controls for data residency, granular access restriction, and encryption to meet sovereignty requirements.
Provides customizable controls to restrict resource deployment to specific AWS Regions.
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About AWS Control Tower
A service to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone based on best practices and enables governance using a catalog of pre-packaged controls for security, operations, and compliance.
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Pros & Cons
- Automates the setup of a secure, multi-account AWS environment based on best practices, reducing setup time.
- Provides centralized governance and policy enforcement across all AWS accounts within an organization.
- Simplifies the provisioning of new, compliant accounts through a standardized Account Factory.
- Offers a large, pre-packaged catalog of controls for security, operations, and compliance.
- While the service itself is free, it enables other AWS services which incur costs that can be complex to forecast, especially with ephemeral workloads.
- Initial setup and understanding the interaction between the landing zone, OUs, and controls can have a learning curve for new users.
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