Cut implementation time by 70% while achieving full security compliance

For B2B startups and growing businesses that want to focus on building and deploying their products on AWS instead of managing multi-account complexity.
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The most common challenges we see with startups today that are running in the Cloud.

A few clicks in the AWS Console and you have your first app running in the Cloud.

But as you keep building, that single AWS account becomes a dumping ground for dev, staging, and production workloads.

Before you know it, your clean setup turns into an unmanageable mess.

AWS account that holds everything together

One mistake can take down everything

Without account separation, a bug in dev can break production. A security breach in one workload affects everything. The blast radius is massive.

You'll hit AWS service limits as you grow

Single accounts run into hard service limits. More resources mean more management overhead. What worked at 10 resources breaks at 100.

You can't tell what's actually costing you money

All your costs are mixed together. You can't track spending by team, project, or environment. Finding cost-saving opportunities is nearly impossible.

Security and compliance become a nightmare

Different workloads need different security policies, but you're stuck with one-size-fits-all. Meeting compliance requirements gets harder every day.

IAM permissions are a tangled web

Managing who can access what becomes incredibly complex. You either give too much access (risky) or too little (blocking your team).

There's a better way to build in the Cloud.

We've built a custom Landing Zone using Infrastructure as Code that gives you security, compliance, and automation from day one. Unlike AWS Control Tower which relies on ClickOps, costs $500/month, and offers basic guardrails you can't customize, our solution is written in AWS CDK and provides full customization control, enterprise-grade security, and costs 1/5th to run.

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Multi-Account Architecture

A well-architected AWS Organization structure with dedicated Management, Production, and Development Organizational Units (OUs). We separate accounts for critical functions like Security, Audit/Logging, and Shared Services following AWS best practices.

Dedicated Security Accounts
Log Archive Centralization
Workload Isolation

Now that you've seen what our CDK Landing Zone looks like, let's dive into the specific features and capabilities you'll get.

Every feature you need, right out of the box

From automated account provisioning to enterprise-grade security and compliance monitoring, our CDK Landing Zone includes everything you need to run production workloads with confidence on AWS Cloud. Explore the table below for a comprehensive list of all included features.

Description

Security & Compliance

Centralized Root User Management
Enables centralized root user management and securely deletes all member account root users, reducing security risks and ensuring proper access control across the organization.
Enable EBS Encryption
Automatically enables encryption for all new EBS volumes in the account using a custom resource to enforce a secure-by-default storage policy.
S3 Block Public Access
Applies account-level S3 public access block settings to prevent accidental public exposure of S3 buckets and data.
Encrypted SNS Topic
Creates an SNS topic with encryption backed by a KMS key and tailored access policies to secure notification data and control subscriber access.
Set Account Password Policy
Enforces a robust IAM password policy with requirements like minimum length, expiration, reuse prevention, and complexity rules, thereby strengthening overall account security.
Secure Defaults
Applies security best practices by enforcing secure defaults. For global accounts, it blocks public S3 access and sets a strict account password policy; for regional deployments, it removes the default VPC, enables EBS encryption by default, and secures new VPCs' default security groups.
GuardDuty Deployment
Deploys Amazon GuardDuty with dual options: either enabling a delegated administrator account for centralized management or auto-configuring GuardDuty detectors along with organizational settings to automatically enable GuardDuty for all members.
CloudTrail Logging
Centralizes AWS CloudTrail logs and sets up CloudWatch alarms for key security events (such as unauthorized access and root-user activity) to enhance security monitoring.
Configuration Recorder
Captures and delivers AWS Config snapshots, enabling continuous tracking of configuration changes and ensuring compliance across environments.
Security Hub Management
Centralizes AWS Security Hub configuration across the organization by deploying aggregators, establishing organization-wide configuration policies for enabled and disabled standards, and associating these policies with the relevant organizational units.
AWS Config
Deploys AWS Config recording with integration to existing log archive and security accounts. It imports an SNS topic for notifications as well as an S3 bucket for storing AWS Config logs, ensuring that configuration changes and compliance events are centrally recorded and alerted upon.
Log Archive
Sets up a centralized logging architecture for both CloudTrail and AWS Config. This stackset provisions secure S3 buckets with access logs, lifecycle rules, and proper bucket policies to ensure compliance and effective log retention across the organization.
Centralized Alerts
Establishes centralized, encrypted SNS topics for alerting. It sets up topics for CloudTrail and AWS Config notifications, applying organization-based access controls and allowing the security team to receive timely alerts via email.

Automated Account Provisioning

CDK Bootstrap Stackset
Provisions the core bootstrap resources needed for CDK deployments. This includes an encrypted and versioned S3 bucket for file assets, an ECR repository for container images with automated image scanning and lifecycle rules, and preconfigured IAM roles.
Set Alternate Contact
Automatically configures alternate contacts (security, billing, operations) for new AWS accounts, ensuring that proper notifications and account management are in place.
Unsubscribe Marketing Mails
Automatically opts out new AWS accounts from receiving AWS marketing emails, helping maintain desired email preferences across the organization.
Close Account
Automates the closure of AWS accounts when they are moved to a suspended organizational unit, reducing manual intervention and mistakes.
Delete Default VPC
Removes the default VPC in newly created regions using a custom resource and Lambda, helping maintain a clean and secure AWS environment by eliminating unused resources.

Operations & Cost Optimizations

Cost Anomaly Monitoring
Detects unusual cost patterns across AWS services and sends immediate SNS notifications to ensure cost overruns are quickly addressed.
Budget Alerts
Sets up cost budgets with notifications for actual and forecasted spending that exceed defined thresholds, allowing proactive budget management.
Increase Service Quota
Automates requests for AWS service quota increases via a custom resource, ensuring resources are available as demand grows.

Infrastructure & Deployment

Detect StackSet Drift
Regularly checks for drift in CloudFormation StackSets using a scheduled Lambda function, maintaining the desired configuration state across your account.
GitHub Actions Pipeline
Provides a secure CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automatically deploy your infrastructure changes to AWS. Uses OIDC authentication for secure, credential-free deployments without storing long-lived AWS access keys.
AWS Organizations via Code
Create new AWS accounts, define organizational units, and apply Service Control Policies (SCPs) programmatically via AWS CDK, ensuring consistent governance across your entire organization.

Check out our roadmap to see what we're building next.

It's all about speed and security

We setup a secure and compliant AWS landing zone in a few days, using best practice design principles that allows you to build on top of a solid foundation, all using Infrastructure as Code.

“Before Towards the Cloud, we received a variety of proposals to provision our AWS landing zone. Danny's solution and AWS expertise stood out with comprehensive accelerators, documentation, and clearly articulated design principles. We achieved a perfect security score in days, not months, and TTC's ongoing support has been invaluable.”

Galen Simmons, Founder of Accolade
Galen Simmons
CEO & Founder | Accolade
Pass Rate on the CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark
100%
To Provision New Secure Accounts
Minutes
Development Cycles with Secure Guardrails
Faster
Reduction in Cloud Spend Potential
15%+
Read the Accolade case study

Ready to get started? Here's what to expect

A straightforward process from kickoff to deployment and beyond. Here's how we'll build your production-ready AWS foundation together.

Step 11 day

Project kickoff

We'll walk you through the architecture of our multi-account landing zone setup, showcasing how each component works together within your AWS Organization. Then we'll discuss your unique requirements, allowing us to tailor the landing zone specifically to your needs.
Step 21 week

Deploy & Configure

After our initial discussion, we move forward by deploying your landing zone and configuring it to meet the custom requirements we talked about.
Step 31 day

Handover & Knowledge Transfer

The final step is our handover session. In this demo, we walk you through what was deployed, showcasing the Security Hub dashboard to confirm compliance. We also explain how the code and pipeline works, ensuring you know exactly how to leverage these tools yourself.
Step 4Ongoing

Optional: Managed Service

Don't want to manage your Landing Zone yourself? We offer a managed service where we handle maintenance, updates, and continuous improvements as we roll out new features. You focus on building your product while we keep your AWS foundation secure and up-to-date.

Frequently
asked questions

What do we get with the AWS CDK Landing Zone, and how is it different from AWS Control Tower?

You receive a production-ready, multi-account AWS foundation built and managed entirely with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The environment ships with opinionated security guardrails, centralized logging, automated governance, and version-controlled infrastructure so changes flow through Git instead of the console.

Compared to AWS Control Tower, our implementation is GitOps-first and ships with the security/compliance baselines already configured. Control Tower still leaves a lot of manual follow-up work in the console to achieve the same posture, whereas our landing zone is ready for regulated workloads immediately after deployment.

Which AWS accounts and guardrails are included out of the box?

We provision a six-account baseline (Management, Security, Log Archive, Development, Staging, Production) with the right organizational units, logging, and security services pre-wired.

Dedicated accounts keep workloads isolated, while centralized GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Identity Center, Config, and CloudTrail deliver the guardrails auditors look for. Additional accounts for specific teams or regulatory scopes can be spun up from the same code in minutes.

Will it scale with us, and can we tailor the code and policies?

The architecture scales to hundreds of accounts using AWS Organizations delegated administration and CDK StackSets. Because you own the repository, you can adapt OU structures, Service Control Policies, security controls, and integrations without losing support from us.

We often co-author changes so your team learns the codebase, then continue to review or extend it as your governance needs evolve.

What does deployment look like? What access do you need, and will it disrupt existing workloads?

We typically provision the core landing zone within 2–3 business days during the first week of onboarding. We need either permission to create a fresh AWS Organization or administrative access to your management account plus a workshop on OU design, compliance goals, and any accounts you want incorporated.

Deployment is non-disruptive: existing workloads keep running while we attach them to the new guardrails and logging. Controls are introduced gradually so you never lose production access.

How does it integrate with our identity provider and developer workflows?

We federate AWS IAM Identity Center with providers such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, or Google Workspace so your teams sign in with existing credentials and receive least-privilege permission sets across accounts.

Developers deploy through secure CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions via OIDC) that assume short-lived AWS roles per account—no long-lived keys or snowflake scripts required.

How does the Landing Zone improve our security and compliance posture?

You get defense in depth: environment isolation, centralized security services, immutable log archiving, preventative Service Control Policies, detective AWS Config rules, and the option for automated remediation playbooks.

The baseline consistently scores at or near 100% on the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and >95% on AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, giving you ready-made evidence for SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI assessments.

Where is the code hosted, and how are updates delivered?

The CDK repository lives in your GitHub organization, so you retain full ownership. We help wire up CI/CD so every change flows through pull requests and automated checks.

As part of the subscription we maintain the baseline with monthly security reviews and quarterly feature releases. New capabilities from our public roadmap roll out after you approve the pull request.

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