aws iam control_tower guardrail detective preventive

It is an easy way to setup and govern a secure and compliant multiple AWS account based on best practises.

AWS Control Tower uses Organization to create accounts and it has some benefits

  • Auto setup environments
  • Automate ongoing policy management with GuardRail
  • Detect policy violation and remediate them
  • Monitor via dashboard

GuardRail

It provides ongoing governance for ControlTower env.

  • Preventive GuardRail (it uses SCP for restriction)
  • Detective GuardRail (use AWS config) (to detect violation and remediate)

Control Tower

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