AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower is a managed service that simplifies the creation and governance of secure, multi-account AWS environments.

It allows for automation of best practices for account provisioning, security, and compliance. There is also a single plane of glass view onto operation metrics to facilitate management of resources, policies, and costs.

Streamline AWS environment setup with automated multi-account provisioning, while ensuring security and compliance.

Enforces governance policies and establish a secure network framework to reduce risk. With centralized control of these features, organizations save time, reduce manual efforts, and achieve scalable, cost-effective management of their AWS infrastructure.

AWS Control Tower forms a landing zone for the AWS estate so interacts with all AWS services.

The core areas that it covers are around control for Identity Access and Management (IAM), Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and observability features such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail for monitoring and controls.

AWS Control Tower allows businesses to manage their AWS Accounts for new green-field or existing environments using the tools that DevOps engineers are already familiar with.

Due to the automatic enforcement of security best-practices, including regulatory compliance, and network provisioning self-service portals can be created for management by a decentralized team.

Additionally, operational teams can use the visibility through a centralised dashboard, enabling effective monitoring of compliance, resource usage, and costs.