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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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/

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