AWS

Landing Zone Accelerator

Reference Architecture — Infrastructure Portfolio
ACTIVE · HIPAA / HITRUST / CIS
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Management & Tooling — Root / Management Account
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AWS CodePipeline
Source trigger
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CodeBuild
Build & validate
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CloudFormation
Stack deployment
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Control Tower
Guardrails & SCPs
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S3 / CDK
Assets & IaC
Deploy SCPs & Baselines
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AWS Organizations — Organizational Unit Structure
OU
Security
OU
Infrastructure
OU
Sandbox
OU
Workloads
OU
Exceptions
Identity & Access Federation
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IAM Identity Center (SSO) — Centralized Identity & Access
Microsoft Entra ID (SAML 2.0)
SCIM Provisioning
Permission Sets
Role-based Access
MFA Enforced
AWS Client VPN
Security Controls Enforcement
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Security & Compliance Services — Enabled Across All Accounts
AWS Security Hub
Aggregates findings across accounts. CIS, HIPAA, NIST controls.
Amazon GuardDuty
Threat detection — malicious IPs, DNS, CloudTrail anomalies.
AWS Config
Continuous resource compliance evaluation & drift detection.
AWS CloudTrail
Org-wide API audit logs centralized to Log Archive S3 bucket.
AWS Macie
S3 sensitive data discovery — PHI / PII classification.
CloudWatch + Alarms
CIS MetricFilters, threshold alarms, centralized log groups.
SCPs
Preventive controls — deny root, enforce regions, block public S3.
AWS KMS
CMKs for EBS, S3, RDS, EFS encryption at rest.
Amazon Inspector
EC2 / Lambda / ECR vulnerability assessments.
Network Segmentation
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Network Account — Centralized Networking
Transit Gateway
TGW Peering Route Tables RAM Share
Inspection VPC
AWS Network Firewall East-West Egress
Endpoint VPC
PrivateLink S3 GW Route 53 Resolver
Client VPN
Entra ID AuthN Split Tunnel VPN Endpoint
On-Prem / DX
Direct Connect Site-to-Site VPN
Workload Connectivity via TGW
Workload Accounts — Data & Compute
Amazon EFS
Amazon S3 (Lab Data)
Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL)
EC2 (HPC / Analysis)
ECS / App Runner
S3 Vendor Buckets
Secrets Manager
SharePoint Sync
Centralized Logging & Audit
Compliance Frameworks & Audit Posture
HIPAA
HITRUST CSF
CIS AWS v1.4
NIST 800-53
SOC 2
Org-wide CloudTrail · Centralized Log Archive · Config Rules · Security Hub Aggregator