AWS Control Tower is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that helps customers set up and manage a multi-account environment on AWS. AWS Control Tower provides a preconfigured set of best practices blueprints and a managed set of AWS services to automate the creation of new accounts and implement guardrails for security, compliance, and operational efficiency. Here are some examples of how AWS Control Tower can be used:
- Automated account provisioning: AWS Control Tower automates the setup of new accounts based on pre-defined blueprints. You can create multiple accounts for different departments, teams, or applications with consistent naming conventions, tags, and network architecture.
- Centralized management: AWS Control Tower provides a centralized dashboard for monitoring your multi-account environment, including compliance and security status, account usage, and spending. You can set up policies and guardrails to ensure consistency and security across all accounts.
- Compliance and security: AWS Control Tower provides built-in guardrails and compliance checks based on AWS best practices, such as enabling AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Service Catalog, and AWS Security Hub. You can also create custom guardrails and rules to enforce security and compliance policies.
- Resource sharing: AWS Control Tower enables cross-account resource sharing, allowing teams to collaborate and share resources like Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon EC2 instances, and AWS Lambda functions across accounts.
- Cost optimization: AWS Control Tower helps you optimize costs by monitoring and analyzing spending across all accounts. You can set up policies to enforce budget limits, tag resources for cost allocation, and use AWS Cost Explorer to analyze usage and forecast costs.
AWS Control Tower provides a comprehensive solution for managing a multi-account environment on AWS, ensuring compliance, security, and operational efficiency while reducing complexity and cost.
