118. The landing zone: Managing multiple AWS accounts
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In this episode, we provide an introductory overview of AWS's best practices for managing infrastructure using multiple accounts under an organization. We discuss the advantages of this approach and how to get started creating your own multi-account environment, or "landing zone". 💰 SPONSORS 💰 AWS Bites is brought to you by fourTheorem, an AWS Partner that does CLOUD stuff well, including helping you set up your AWS organisation! If that’s something you are looking for, go to fourtheorem.com to read more about us and to get in touch! In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: AWS Definition of Landing Zone: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-migration/aws-landing-zone.html Series of articles "Managing AWS accounts like a PRO": https://fourtheorem.com/managing-aws-accounts-part-1/ AWS Organizations service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_introduction.html IAM Identity Center service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/what-is.html Control Tower: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/what-is-control-tower.html org-formation: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli Our previous episode "AWS Governance and landing zone with Control Tower, OrgFormation and Terraform": https://awsbites.com/96-aws-governance-and-landing-zone-with-control-tower-org-formation-and-terraform granted.dev: https://granted.dev AWS SSO util: https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-sso-util Leapp: https://www.leapp.cloud/ Cloud Glance: https://cloudglance.dev/ Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on X, formerly Twitter: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/eoins⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/loige⁠⁠
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