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An AWS Landing Zone is a reference architecture and set of best practices for setting up a secure, scalable multi-account AWS environment with centralized governance. It is commonly used by platform, security, and cloud operations teams to standardize how accounts, identity, networking, and audit controls are established across business units and workloads, especially in regulated environments or large enterprises.
A landing zone is typically implemented using AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower to automate account provisioning and apply consistent guardrails, while centralizing logging and configuration visibility for security and compliance.
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 reference architectures and best practices for building a secure, scalable multi-account AWS environment with centralized governance. It is used to standardize foundational controls so teams can onboard workloads quickly without weakening security or operational consistency.
AWS Landing Zone is a strong fit for organizations moving from a single account to multi-account, adopting a platform operating model, or needing repeatable controls for regulated workloads. Trade-offs include added upfront design work and ongoing governance operations, and highly customized networking or identity requirements may require extensions beyond default patterns.
Common alternatives include AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, Terraform-based landing zones, and the AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA). For background on AWS multi-account best practices, see AWS Organizations best practices.
Our experience with AWS Landing Zone helped us establish repeatable multi-account foundations, automation patterns, and governance guardrails that made AWS environments easier to secure, operate, and scale. Across client engagements, we applied these practices to reduce provisioning 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 builds 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: