118. The landing zone: Managing multiple AWS accounts

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".

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🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:24 What is a Landing Zone?
01:58 The advantages of having multiple AWS accounts
07:10 What are the benefits for an individual who isn't leveraging AWS extensively?
10:06 How to organise AWS accounts effectively?
14:54 AWS Services and tools that you can use to set up your organisation (AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, and Control Tower)
18:12 Tools to manage accounts and organisations using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
22:56 Tools to get temporary programmatic access (Granted, Leapp, CloudGlance, etc)
24:38 Summary and wrap up


In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

AWS Definition of Landing Zone: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescript...
Series of articles "Managing AWS accounts like a PRO": https://fourtheorem.com/managing-aws-...
AWS Organizations service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizat...
IAM Identity Center service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesig...
Control Tower: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controlto...
org-formation: https://github.com/org-formation/org-...
Our previous episode "AWS Governance and landing zone with Control Tower, OrgFormation and Terraform": https://awsbites.com/96-aws-governanc...
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/


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