What is a Landing Zone?
A Landing Zone is the concept of a pre-defined multi-account environment that allows you to securely onboard application workloads onto the cloud in an automated way. A good multi-account foundation reduces the cognitive load of different teams and allows the developers to move faster. It either blocks any misconfigurations by default or recovers from an issue without much effort. These foundations typically unlock two main use cases – migrating workloads from on-premises environments or net new development in the cloud. Therefore, the main goals here are as follows:
- Secure and compliant
- Scalable and resilient
- Flexible to future change
A good KPI to measure a Landing Zone’s maturity is – how long it takes to create a new AWS account and make it ready for hosting production workloads. There’s a lot that goes on in between, starting with account requests, approvals, provisioning, and actual usage, highlighting...
