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Account Strategy Evolution
- Multi-account strategy is a journey, not a one-time setup
- Refer to the AWS Organizations whitepaper for best practices and recommendations on organizational unit (OU) design
- Key OUs:
- Foundational OUs: Security, Infrastructure
- Sandbox OU for testing new features
- Workloads OUs: Non-Production, Production
- Suspended OU for closed accounts
- Transitional OU for managing acquired accounts
- Exceptional OUs for exceptions with limited accounts and time
- Use AWS Control Tower to centralize multi-account setup and controls management
- Deploys a landing zone with recommended baseline configurations
- Integrates with AWS services like Organizations, CloudTrail, Config
- Provides over 500 managed controls
- Recently integrated with AWS Backup for centralized backup management
Preventive Controls
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) and Resource Control Policies (RCPs) for preventive controls
- RCPs allow you to enforce consistent access to resources across accounts and regions
- RCPs and SCPs can work together to implement identity and resource perimeters
- Declarative Policies for EC2 allow you to centrally enforce attribute-based controls (e.g., block public access to snapshots)
Proactive Controls
- Use CloudFormation Hooks and CloudFormation Guard to implement proactive controls
- CloudFormation Guard is a policy-as-code solution to define rules for compliance
- Terraform can also leverage Cloud Control API to implement proactive controls
Detective Controls
- AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes and provides compliance evaluation
- CloudTrail provides the audit trail for governance, including management, data, and network activity events
- Enhanced event filtering in CloudTrail Lake allows you to optimize data collection
- Audit Manager helps you gather evidence and automate auditing processes
Key Takeaways
- Define a multi-account strategy and leverage AWS Control Tower
- Utilize the controls provided by AWS to support your governance objectives
- Automate preventive and proactive controls using infrastructure as code
- Leverage detective controls like AWS Config and CloudTrail for visibility and compliance
Additional resources:
- Cloud Adoption Framework
- IDC study on AWS Cloud Governance services
- AWS Cloud Governance principle page
- Recommended related sessions: COP326 on AWS Config