Key considerations in a Landing Zone

Creating a Landing Zone concept from scratch that will cater to all current and future organizational needs can be intimidating. Five areas are essential for all organizations, big or small, to build an AWS foundation that scales. We will discuss them in this section, starting with the multi-account structure.

Defining a structure for organizational units and accounts

At the core of your Landing Zone design is an account structure that enables an organization to move fast, enforce granular controls, establish isolation boundaries, and reduce blast radius, while remaining flexible to future changes. So far in this chapter, we have discussed quite a few areas that benefit from a multi-account structure. All of this aligns well with the AWS Organizations service offerings, which help you manage your entire AWS landscape under the same umbrella. It gives you organizational controls that are otherwise difficult to establish, and maintain, across...