Best Practices

  • Only one Control Tower allowed per Organization
    • Create a new Organization during setup, or add to an existing Organization
  • Use multiple accounts
    • Security controls
    • Workload and data isolation
    • Multiple teams
    • Business processes—different accounts for difference business needs
    • Billing—separate billable items across business units etc.
    • Quota allocations—set up on per-account basis
  • Use multiple OUs
    • Apply security controls and guardrails at the OU level—grouping of similar accounts
  • Do not add tags to resources created by Control Tower—not supported
  • Decide on user access ahead of time
    • Restrict access to AWSControlTowerAdmin role

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