Category: Management Tools

AWS Control Tower enables you to create new AWS accounts in your AWS Organization with AWS-recommended best practices and guardrails in place. Our customers and partners often ask for ways to automate the execution of some customizations specific to their organization on the creation of a new AWS account. This is especially true for customers […]

Managing and operating large-scale applications and workload in the cloud requires central governance, control, and visibility. Today, AWS Control Tower customers are configuring a secure baseline and using guardrails to provide ongoing governance for their multi-account environment. Customers also want to extend AWS Control Tower guardrail notification to their existing incident management and compliance alerting […]

As a customer, you deploy workloads on the AWS Cloud, and you often build multi-account environments based on AWS Multi Account Strategy best practices. Many of my customers use AWS Control Tower as an orchestration framework to provision new accounts. AWS Control Tower provides a way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account […]

AWS services support customer needs across various business functions and initiatives. To support this growth, customers are using AWS Control Tower to set up their multi-account environments in a fast and secure way. Customers must also build a framework that enables the network topology to be scalable as they grow their infrastructure footprint on the […]

As businesses grow, the recommended approach in AWS is to move from one account to a multi-account environment. Using an AWS account as the isolation boundary, the multi-account approach enables customers to have the flexibility to isolate resources. You might select this option to separate applications that have different security requirements or manage service limits. […]

When running large scale applications and workloads in the cloud, customers need a streamlined visibility across their environment especially when these workloads are distributed among separate AWS accounts for regulatory, compliance, security, or cost tracking reasons. AWS Control Tower simplifies and automates the account provisioning while maintaining a consistent baseline configuration with prescriptive blueprints and […]

Blog post about how to implement Alert Logic MDR integration with AWS Control Tower

Customers at all levels of cloud consumption are using AWS Control Tower to set up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, well-architected, and ready to use. Automation and centralized management across an AWS environment help organizations to streamline their operations. Kishore, Devi, and I have heard from customers that they would like […]

AWS Marketplace now offers a new category of solutions to help you integrate third-party software with AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower provides a way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It is based on best practices established through the experience working with thousands of enterprises as they move to […]

On December 1, 2019, AWS released EC2 Image Builder, which simplifies the creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and deployment of Linux or Windows Server images. We now recommend AWS customers use EC2 Image Builder to manage your golden images. You can use the scripts provided in this blog post to create a golden AMI pipeline with […]