Designing Landing Zone Architectures with AWS Control Tower

Defining target landing zones is a key step in planning and designing migrations to the AWS Cloud. This course provides details on the initial design, migration planning, and setup of landing zones using AWS Control Tower. This course also provides strategies to streamline existing AWS account landscape leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework. 

- Course level: Intermediate 

- Duration: 2 Hours 

Activities 

This course includes lessons, scenarios, demos, and knowledge check questions.  

Course objectives 

In this course, you will learn to do the following: 

• Explain landing zones concepts and tools. 
• Summarize how to build secure and compliant landing zones on AWS with or without AWS Control Tower. 
• Explain the benefits and use cases of landing zones during migration planning and post migration account organization. 
• Determine multi-account best practices. 
• Recall how to design the account structure following best practices. 
• Explain at a high-level the migration process of disparate accounts to a new landing zone created using AWS Control Tower. 
• Summarize a customer’s journey in organizing a disparate collection of AWS accounts to a well-architected landing zone. 

Intended audience 

This course is intended for: 

• Cloud architects 
• Migration engineers 
•  IT managers 

Prerequisites 

We recommend that attendees of this course have reviewed: 

• Introduction to AWS Organizations course 
• Getting Started with AWS Control Tower course 
• General knowledge of AWS and cloud computing 

Course outline 

Module 1: Introduction to Landing Zone Architecture and AWS Control Tower Architecture 

•  Lesson 1: How to Use This Course 
•  Lesson 2: Course Overview 
• Lesson 3: Introduction to Designing Landing Zone Architectures 
• Lesson 4: Overview, Benefits, and Architecture of AWS Control Tower 
• Lesson 5: Integration of AWS Control Tower with other AWS Governance Services 
•  Lesson 6: Quiz 
• Lesson 7: Summary 
• Lesson 8: Additional Resources 
• Lesson 9: Feedback 

Module 2: Planning, Design, and Setup of AWS Control Tower Based Landing Zones 

•  Lesson 1: How to Use This Course 
• Lesson 2: Course Overview 
• Lesson 3: Planning and Configuring AWS Control Tower During a Cloud Migration 
• Lesson 4: AWS Control Tower Landing Zone Setup Best Practices 
•  Lesson 5: Scaling AWS Control Tower Landing Zone 
• Lesson 6: Customizing Your AWS Control Tower Landing Zone 
• Lesson 7: Quiz 
• Lesson 8: Summary and Next Steps 
•  Lesson 9: Additional Resources 
•  Lesson 10: Feedback