AWS Landing Zone Design
A secure, well-governed, multi-account AWS foundation built before your first workload lands — so every migration, application, and team that follows inherits the right guardrails from day one.
The foundation you build first is the one you're stuck with longest
Skipping a proper landing zone feels faster in month one — and gets expensive fast. Flat, single-account environments accumulate unmanaged risk: no blast-radius isolation, inconsistent security policy, sprawling IAM permissions, and no clean way to onboard new teams or workloads without re-architecting later. A landing zone gets the account structure, guardrails, and governance right before that debt builds up.
F9 Infotech designs landing zones using AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations best practices — tailored to your compliance requirements, team structure, and migration roadmap, not a generic template.
A landing zone built on six core components
Every design covers the full foundation — governance, identity, network, and security — not just account creation.
Multi-Account Structure
Dedicated accounts for security, log archive, shared services, and workloads — isolating blast radius and simplifying billing and access control.
Identity & Access Federation
Centralized identity via IAM Identity Center, single sign-on, and role-based access — no long-lived per-account credentials.
Guardrails & Policy-as-Code
Preventive and detective controls via Service Control Policies and AWS Config rules, enforced automatically across every account.
Centralized Logging & Monitoring
Consolidated CloudTrail, Config, and GuardDuty findings routed to a dedicated log archive account for audit-ready visibility.
Network Foundations
VPC design, Transit Gateway or equivalent hub-and-spoke connectivity, and segmentation aligned to your security zones.
Account Vending & Self-Service
A repeatable process for provisioning new, pre-governed accounts on demand — so teams move fast without bypassing controls.
A typical F9 Infotech landing zone account map
Structure is tailored per engagement — this is the common starting pattern.
Management Account
Billing, Organizations, Control Tower
Security & Audit
GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM Identity Center
Log Archive
Centralized CloudTrail & Config logs
Shared Services
Networking hub, DNS, shared tooling
Workload Accounts (Dev / Test / Prod, per team or application)
Isolated, pre-governed accounts vended on demand as new teams and applications onboard
From assessment to a governed, production-ready foundation
Assess & design
Map compliance requirements, team structure, and migration roadmap to an account and OU design.
Deploy the foundation
Stand up Control Tower, Organizations, identity federation, and baseline guardrails.
Configure guardrails
Implement Service Control Policies, Config rules, and centralized security tooling.
Hand off & enable
Document the design, train your team, and enable self-service account vending going forward.
Deliverables from every engagement
- Account & OU design document — the full multi-account structure mapped to your organization and compliance needs.
- Deployed landing zone — Control Tower, Organizations, identity federation, and guardrails configured and operational.
- Guardrail policy set — Service Control Policies and Config rules documented and version-controlled.
- Centralized logging pipeline — CloudTrail, Config, and security findings routed to a dedicated audit account.
- Account vending process — a repeatable, self-service path for provisioning new pre-governed accounts.
- Handover & enablement — documentation and knowledge transfer so your team can operate and extend the foundation independently.
A foundation built by the same team that migrates onto it
F9 Infotech's landing zones aren't a standalone deliverable — they're designed by the same AWS-certified architects who then execute the migrations and manage the workloads that run on top. That means the account structure, guardrails, and network design are built with your actual migration roadmap in mind, not a generic template retrofitted after the fact. Whether you're landing a single VMware exit or onboarding dozens of teams over time, the foundation is designed to scale with you.
Governance that held up under a real migration
Building on AWS without a proper foundation yet?
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