Set up your organization for success with cloud governance
Benefits
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Cultivate agility
Quickly spin up new workloads that meet your security, operational, compliance, and cost standards. Accelerate provisioning with purpose-built controls as part of infrastructure as code.
Operate in a dynamic regulatory environment
Inspect and audit your compliance and regulatory requirements with tailored reporting.
Streamline mergers and acquisitions
Migrate workloads faster with established multi-account controls that apply as your AWS estate expands using AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower.
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Customer stories
Symetra saves resources by using AWS Control Tower for account provisioning
“Prior to using AWS Control Tower, our account provisioning process was roughly 4 hours long with 25 manual steps. With AWS Control Tower, we can provision accounts that adhere to our corporate policy in less than 30 minutes, and with as few as 10 steps. AWS Control Tower enables our organization to quickly create new accounts that adhere to our requirements, replacing manual steps with automation. The out-of-the-box guardrails and integration with other AWS services are extremely useful and have saved countless hours of development, testing, and implementation.”
- Andrew Chemis
Cloud Engineer, Symetra
Bristol Myers Squibb implemented a fully automated self-service platform
Bristol Myers Squibb uses AWS Control Tower and AWS Service Catalog to support controls and deliver best practice kits in their cloud environment.
Behavox enhanced its security posture while facilitating growth
Behavox scaled to support institutions with 100,000 employees on AWS Organizations and AWS identity services.
Digital Partners enhances security by using AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub
Digital Partners uses AWS Control Tower to set up and help govern a secure AWS environment. They also use AWS Security Hub for a comprehensive view of security alerts and postures across their AWS accounts.
Warner Bros. Discovery improves mergers and acquisitions by using AWS Organizations
Warer Bros. Discover uses AWS Organizations to create new AWS accounts at no additional charge, allocate resources, group accounts, and apply governance policies.
Resources
Learn more about cloud governance with blog posts, videos, workshops, What's New posts, and training.
Architecture Best Practices for Management and Governance
Learn about architecture best practices for management and governance in the AWS Cloud, including how to get started, build and test, deploy, and audit and optimize.
AWS Security Governance at Scale
By automating processes, you can scale without inhibiting agility, speed, or innovation. You can also provide decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.
Enforce Preventive Guardrails by Using Service Control Policies
With service control policies in AWS Organizations, you can centrally manage permissions to enforce security guidelines while allowing builder teams to safely innovate with AWS services.
Best practices for organizing and operating on AWS
In this video, hear Bianca Lankford, Senior Director/Global Head of Cloud Engineering and Governance from Warner Brothers Discovery, describe how they organized their cloud environment to allow teams to develop with agility while being able to manage and operate their applications in a secure, automated, reliable, and cost-effective way.
AWS Control Tower Workshop
AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. This workshop guides you through how you can create such an environment.
Cloud compliance, assurance, and auditing
Learn how to continuously assess, manage, and maintain compliance for formalized standards such as those required by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
An introduction to AWS Audit Manager
This video introduces AWS Audit Manager, a managed compliance service that helps you audit your use of AWS in a single place where usage evidence is continuously collected and organized.
AWS re:Inforce 2023 - Best practices for cloud governance at scale
Learn best practices in cloud governance for building a well-architected, scalable foundation on AWS, including strategies for permissions management, secure workload deployments, and environment governance.
AWS re:Inforce 2023 - Managing risk in a regulated environment
See how to use AWS services such as AWS Control Tower, AWS Config, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS Organizations to manage the risk inherent to sensitive workloads.
Designing Landing Zone Architectures with AWS Control Tower
This intermediate e-learning course provides prescriptive guidance about designing target landing zones to support migration and modernization efforts using AWS Control Tower.