Build a Strong Cloud Foundation with AWS Secure Landing Zone

The Challenge

Businesses without a Secure Landing Zone face security vulnerabilities & compliance issues, amongst many other risks. As their cloud footprint grows, organizations encounter operational inefficiencies and scalability issues, having to rely on manual provisioning which is error-prone and time-consuming. Without predefined guardrails and automation provided by an SLZ, customers are also at higher risk of data exploits.

The Solution: Establish a secure and well-architected AWS environment

Cloud Kinetics’ AWS Secure Landing Zone (SLZ) solution utilizes Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) on AWS, delivering extensive security and governance capabilities. This comprehensive solution ensures that your cloud environments are secure, compliant and scalable while enabling faster and more efficient deployment of workloads.

Provisioning standard AWS security services

Setting up IAM password policies

Enforcing guardrails

Securing S3 access

Defining account structures & tagging approaches

Establishing alerting through CloudWatch & SNS

Implementing backup policies

Configuring breakglass admin access

Integrating with Service Catalog

Facilitating Single Sign-On (SSO) user creation via AWS IAM Identity Center

The Benefits: Deploy, govern and optimize your AWS environments to ignite enterprise-scale transformation

SLZ helps you unlock the full spectrum of cloud benefits by centralizing and automating administrative tasks, and has the flexibility to evolve as your cloud strategy matures.

Customer Success Story

The customer, a prestigious university in Asia known for providing a world-class educational experience, struggled with managing growing workloads and users across multiple AWS accounts, leading to complex governance issues. Security and compliance were also lacking, while the absence of a centralized cost management strategy caused unexpected costs and inefficiencies.

Cloud Kinetics implemented a Landing Zone with AWS Control Tower for centralized management. A well-structured account hierarchy was also established for more granular control and improved isolation between different applications. Additionally, CK enforced security best practices, managed costs centrally, integrated disaster recovery, automated backups, and provided ongoing IT support and maintenance.

Enhanced Security and Compliance Data protection and regulatory compliance was met

Streamlined Account Management With a structured multi-account setup, the customer achieved greater agility in managing their infrastructure

Improved Scalability and Flexibility Allowed customer to scale rapidly, accommodating increased workloads and new projects seamlessly

Optimized Cost Control Customer gained better visibility into cloud spending, translating to cost optimizations, and ensuring budget predictability

Tags: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Managed Services