Name: AWS Control Tower
Rating: 8.2 (11 reviews)
Author: Amazon AWS

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Facility Management

Meeting Management

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

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Corporate Learning Management

Employee Onboarding

HR Management

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

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Data Governance

Fraud Detection

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Ad Serving & Retargeting

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Content Management

Contest Management

Customer Loyalty Program

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Marketing Resource Management

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Streaming

Web Analytics

Marketing

Job Site Management

Project Management

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Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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The vendor presents AWS Control Tower as the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure multi-account AWS environment. With AWS Control Tower, builders can provision new AWS accounts in a few clicks, while knowing new accounts conform to company-wide policies.

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AWS Control Tower Tutorial / deep dive: In this demo we will discuss how to Implement landing Zone using Control Tower.

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AWS Control Tower Account Factory (English)

AWS Control Tower set up demo (English).

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Usability

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Cloud Computing Security Features

Cloud Computing Security offers safety and privacy features through their features and tools.

Continuous Data Encryption

Encrypts data in transit and at rest to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access or interception.

Automated Data Backup and Recovery

Provides automated and regular backups of cloud data to ensure data availability and offers mechanisms for data recovery in case of data loss or disaster.

Continuous Monitoring

Monitors and logs cloud activities, network traffic, and resource usage to detect and respond to potential security threats or suspicious activities.

Intrusion Detection and Prevention:

Implements systems and technologies to detect and prevent unauthorized access or intrusions into cloud resources or networks.

Regular Vulnerability Management

Conducts regular vulnerability assessments and scans to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities within the cloud infrastructure.

Identity and Access Management

Offers centralized management of user identities, roles, and permissions to streamline access control and enforce least privilege principles.

Secure Data Transfer

Provides secure methods for transferring data to and from the cloud, such as encrypted protocols or virtual private networks (VPNs).

Security Incident Response

Establishes protocols and procedures for promptly responding to security incidents, mitigating their impact, and conducting forensic investigations.

Compliance and Auditing

Supports compliance with industry regulations and standards, and offers audit logs and reports to meet regulatory requirements and facilitate security audits.

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Make it simple

Import process

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Cloud Computing Security Software

AWS Control Tower allows me to provision predefined compliant and secure AWS accounts in an automated fashion

AWS Control Tower integrates with AWS organizations
AWS Control Tower provides Account Factory to provision preconfigured AWS accounts
AWS Control Tower helps to isolate workloads and billing via AWS accounts separation
AWS Control Tower supports data residency controls out of the box
AWS Control Tower supports post provisioning actions to newly provisioned AWS accounts: for example it can trigger enabling VPC flow logs in the new account

If possible it would be nice to see an automated option to close AWS accounts created with the Account Factory

Multi account support
Integration with various services - Cloud formation / stack/stackset concepts
SSO integration
Preconfiguration of newly created accounts
Provisioning new AWS accounts without need to use credit card for each of the new accounts - all works on a credit card used to set up the master account.

It helped to separate billing for dev/prod/uat workloads, making it easier to control how much developers are spending.

HashiCorp Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine

Scalability
Integration with Other Systems
Ease of Use

This is a unique solution solving a particular problem : provisioning AWS accounts and preconfiguring them so they are ready to use and secure out of the box.

Provisioning of new AWS accounts that are preconfigured
Applying data residency controls within a single click
Managing user access

Closing AWS accounts automatically is impossible
The service catalog integration is little bit complex

AWS SSO
AWS Security Hub
AWS GuardDuty
Lots of AWS services integrates well with the Control Tower

We started using AWS Control Tower to split up our workloads into separate accounts to follow the AWS well-architected framework. AWS Control Tower makes it easy to create new accounts and drive policies across them all. So our root account handles creating other accounts for us and ensures they all have logging and our security practices in place.

Easily create new AWS accounts.
Easily secure and manage AWS accounts.
Landing zone with SSO is a huge win for larger teams.

Can be slow at times to reflect changes.
The GUI in the console is not always the most user-friendly and errors can be non-descript.
Cannot change some key info about an account from AWS Control Tower once it's provisioned.

Less time manually deploying accounts which was error prone.
Central logging allowed us to have 1 place to view logs.

We have multiple companies along with multiple clients that require separate AWS accounts. With AWS Control Tower it makes it simple and easy to have a central point to monitor and control all the AWS accounts.

Guardrails make securing accounts easy and quick.
AWS SSO allows us a central point for controlling users and groups across each account.
Centralized logging serves as a single point to monitor each environment.
Landing zones allow us to apply templates for each account and customize each one from a central point as well.

AWS Control Tower

Overview

What is AWS Control Tower?