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An AWS Landing Zone is a reference architecture and set of best practices from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for establishing a secure, scalable multi-account AWS environment with centralized governance. It typically standardizes core account structure (e.g., management, security, shared services, and workload accounts), identity and access management, network baselines, logging and monitoring, and policy enforcement—often implemented with AWS Organizations, AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO), AWS Control Tower, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, and guardrails. Common capabilities include automated account provisioning, consistent baseline configuration across accounts and regions, centralized audit and security visibility, network segmentation, and separation of duties for regulated or large-scale environments. Typical use cases include enterprise cloud adoption, regulated workloads, multi-team platform operations, and mergers/acquisitions where consistent governance is required; see AWS Control Tower for a commonly used implementation approach.
The cloud is a general term used to describe resources such as computing and storage that are provided as services managed by the cloud provider. Nowadays cloud providers offer a wide variety of services: Databases, Orchestration tools, Messaging queues, etc.
Running and maintaining a physical data center requires significant time and effort, with limited resources compared to the extensive options offered by various Cloud providers. In certain situations, managing physical infrastructure cannot be avoided due to security or budget constraints. Nonetheless, the diverse array of top-notch services provided by cloud providers, along with their seamless integrations and user-friendly interfaces, make them an excellent option for developing software applications.
AWS Landing Zone is a set of AWS best practices and reference implementations for establishing a secure, multi-account AWS environment with consistent governance. It is used to standardize account provisioning, networking, identity, and guardrails so teams can scale cloud adoption without reinventing foundational controls.
AWS Landing Zone is a strong fit for organizations adopting a multi-account strategy, especially when multiple teams need autonomy without losing centralized control. Trade-offs include upfront design effort and ongoing governance ownership, and some organizations prefer to implement a custom baseline using AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, and IaC when requirements deviate significantly.
For deeper background, see AWS guidance on AWS Control Tower, which is commonly used to implement landing zone concepts.
Our experience with AWS Landing Zone helped us build repeatable patterns, automation, and governance guardrails that make multi-account AWS environments easier to operate and scale. Across client engagements, we used these practices to reduce setup time, standardize security baselines, and improve day-2 operations for platform and application teams.
Some of the things we did include:
This experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across multiple AWS Landing Zone use-cases, from greenfield setups to governance retrofits on existing organizations. It enables us to deliver high-quality AWS Landing Zone setups that are secure by default, maintainable over time, and practical for teams to operate.
Some of the things we can help you do with AWS Landing Zone include: