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Where the mess starts
A few clicks in the AWS Console are enough to ship the first workload.
Then dev, staging, and production begin sharing the same account, the same limits, and the same access patterns.
Before long, every new service inherits the blast radius and operational ambiguity of everything that came before it.
Without account separation, a bug in dev can break production and a compromise in one workload affects every other workload sharing the same boundary.
Single-account growth pushes against quotas, policy sprawl, and manual setup. The AWS model that worked early starts slowing every new launch.
When teams, projects, and environments share the same account structure, cost allocation and optimization work both get harder.
The same environment has to satisfy different controls for different workloads, which leads to fragile guardrails and audit pain.
Permissions, account access, and cross-team boundaries turn into a web of exceptions that are difficult to review and harder to maintain safely.
The landing zone is opinionated where it should be and adaptable where teams need room. Review the organization model, the security fabric, the infrastructure code structure, and the built-in controls before deciding whether the baseline fits your AWS operating model.
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.
| 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. |
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The value is not just the initial deployment. It is the baseline the team inherits afterward: cleaner account boundaries, faster account creation, and a foundation that is easier to evolve.
“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.”
The process is intentionally short: define the right boundary model, deploy the landing zone, then leave the team with a baseline it can keep operating after the initial rollout.
We review the current AWS organization, the compliance targets, and the account model your team needs before finalizing the landing-zone scope.
We deploy the landing zone, configure the guardrails, and bring existing accounts into the new structure while minimizing disruption to the workloads already running.
We walk the team through the deployed baseline, the security posture, and the codebase so the landing zone remains understandable after delivery instead of turning into another opaque platform layer.
Take ownership of the CDK codebase, the deployment flow, and the operating model after the handover is complete.
Use the landing zone as the baseline and keep us on for updates, feature expansion, and ongoing security or platform work as the AWS estate grows.
Purchase the landing zone deployment through AWS Marketplace when procurement or billing needs to stay inside your AWS vendor workflow.
We'll review the current AWS organization, the controls you need, and whether the landing zone is the right next move before migration or broader platform work begins.
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