AWS Landing Zone
Assess or design a governed AWS multi-account foundation across identity, networking, security and operations.
AWS environments often begin with a small number of accounts and workloads.
As adoption grows, identity, account structure, networking, logging, security controls and operational ownership become increasingly difficult to manage consistently.
An AWS landing zone establishes the governed multi-account foundation that workloads operate within.
We assess an existing AWS environment or design a new platform foundation for future workloads.
What we assess
Organization and account structure
- AWS Organizations
- Organizational Units
- Account strategy
- Workload separation
- Environment separation
- Platform accounts
- Security accounts
- Log archive design
AWS Control Tower
- Landing-zone configuration
- Registered OUs
- Account enrollment
- Controls
- Account Factory
- Governance consistency
- Existing-account integration
Identity and access
- IAM Identity Center
- Administrative access
- Permission sets
- IAM roles
- Root-user protection
- Privileged access
- Workload identity boundaries
Governance
- Service Control Policies
- AWS Config
- Organizational controls
- Tagging
- Account standards
- Region strategy
- Exception management
Security
- Security Hub
- GuardDuty
- Central security visibility
- Security account architecture
- Logging
- Detection foundations
- Control-plane protection
Network
- Network-account strategy
- Transit architecture
- VPC design
- DNS
- Internet ingress and egress
- Hybrid connectivity
- Shared services
Operations
- Central logging
- Backup foundations
- Monitoring
- Cost governance
- Account provisioning
- Infrastructure as Code
- Platform lifecycle
What you receive
- Current-state assessment
- Target multi-account architecture
- OU and account model
- Identity and governance design
- Network and security architecture
- Gap and risk register
- Implementation backlog
- Platform validation
Example public finding
This is an illustrative example, not a finding from a customer assessment.
AWSLZ-008 — Account structure reflects project history rather than governance boundaries
Observation
AWS accounts and Organizational Units have grown incrementally around individual projects without a consistent separation model for production workloads, platform services and security responsibilities.
Why it matters
As the environment expands, inconsistent account boundaries make centralized controls, delegated administration, logging and security ownership more difficult to maintain.
Recommended direction
Define account boundaries based on isolation, governance and operating requirements. Establish an intentional OU hierarchy and align controls, identity, logging and security responsibilities with that structure.
Public methodology
Public material may include:
- Landing-zone design domains
- Multi-account principles
- Public readiness checklist
- Architecture decision examples
- Sanitized architecture patterns
- Sample findings
- Example report structure
Environment-specific assessment details and remediation guidance are provided within the agreed project scope.