March 15, 2024

118. The landing zone: Managing multiple AWS accounts

25 minutes

In this episode, we provide an introductory overview of AWS's best practices for managing infrastructure using multiple accounts under an organization. We discuss the advantages of this approach and how to get started creating your own multi-account environment, or "landing zone".

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In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

AWS Definition of Landing Zone: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-migration/aws-landing-zone.html

Series of articles "Managing AWS accounts like a PRO": https://fourtheorem.com/managing-aws-accounts-part-1/

AWS Organizations service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_introduction.html

IAM Identity Center service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/what-is.html

Control Tower: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/what-is-control-tower.html

org-formation: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli

Our previous episode "AWS Governance and landing zone with Control Tower, OrgFormation and Terraform": https://awsbites.com/96-aws-governance-and-landing-zone-with-control-tower-org-formation-and-terraform

granted.dev: https://granted.dev

AWS SSO util: https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-sso-util

Leapp: https://www.leapp.cloud/

Cloud Glance: https://cloudglance.dev/

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