Introduction
When an organization grows rapidly with time then the complexity of their cloud infrastructure, security concerns, and the need for better resource management also grows. Then there is a need for a more efficient and secure way to manage the workloads. To overcome these problems we can use multiple aws accounts in our aws environment. Some use cases where we can segregate AWS accounts are as follows:
We may have a dedicated production account that will protect the organization’s valuable data and minimize the risk of unauthorized access.
There may be a separate development and testing account that allowed their teams to work without impacting the stability of the production systems.
Similarly, we may have a separate AWS account dedicated to replicating critical data, to ensure business continuity in the face of unforeseen events.
In this way, if we use different AWS accounts then our infrastructure becomes more secure with a reduced blast radius. Resource management become easy, with better cost control and optimized resource allocation.
In this blog post, we will explore why we need an AWS control tower for managing multiple AWS accounts, how we can set up AWS Control Tower, and how it can be leveraged to efficiently manage and govern multiple accounts using an account factory, organization units, guardrails, and logging and monitoring.
Why do we need AWS Control Tower?
We have multiple aws accounts in our organization and managing these AWS accounts can become more complex and time-consuming without a centralized management solution. Multiple AWS accounts also require additional administrative effort and resources. Some tasks such as managing user access and permissions across accounts, secure access across accounts, limited resource sharing, tracking, and managing costs and billing need to be performed separately for each account which leads to increased complexity and administrative overhead.
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