AWS Control Tower


  • Easy way to set up and govern a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment based on best practices
  • Uses AWS Org to create accounts
  • Benefits:
    • Automate the setup of the environment in a few clicks
    • Automate ongoing policy management using guardrails
    • Detect policy violations and remediate them
    • Monitor compliance through an interactive dashboard

Guardrails

  • Provides ongoing governance for the Control Tower environment
  • Preventive Guardrail - using SCPs
    • e.g. Restrict Regions across all accounts
  • Detective Guardrail - using AWS Config
    • e.g. Identify untagged resources

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