Get the foundations right, and everything after gets easier.
A landing zone is the part of AWS nobody sees and everything depends on: account structure, identity, networking, guardrails, and logging. We build it as code, to the standard our own audits demand.
Six pieces every serious AWS estate needs.
Multi-account structure
Workloads, environments, and security tooling separated into accounts with AWS Organizations — blast radius contained by design, not by luck.
Identity & access
Single sign-on with IAM Identity Center, permission sets instead of shared credentials, and break-glass access that leaves an audit trail.
Networking
VPC topology, private connectivity, DNS, and egress control planned once — so every new workload lands in a network that already makes sense.
Guardrails & policies
Service control policies and automated configuration checks that make the wrong thing hard to do — long before an auditor asks about it.
Logging & audit trail
CloudTrail, configuration history, and centralised logs collected from day one. When you need to know what happened, the answer exists.
Cost visibility
Tagging standards, consolidated billing, and budgets with alerts built in from the start — so FinOps isn't a retrofit.
Three moments a landing zone pays for itself.
Before a migration
Land your workloads into a structure built on purpose — not into one account that grew by accident and now hosts everything.
Before compliance
ENS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 all assume separation, logging, and access control. A well-built landing zone is most of the evidence.
After organic growth
If production, staging, and experiments share an account, every incident is bigger than it should be. We untangle it without downtime.
As code, without disrupting what's running.
Review
We map what exists today: accounts, identity, network, and the workloads that depend on them.
Design
Target account structure, identity model, and network topology — written down, with the trade-offs explained.
Build
Everything as code — Terraform on AWS Organizations, Control Tower where it fits — rolled out without disturbing running workloads.
Hand over or operate
Fully documented for your team, or operated by ours under managed services.
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