AWS Landing Zone: The Art of Taking Off with a Low Code Solution

Discover streamlining landing zone creation from the ground up using a low-code approach, optimising efficiency and reducing development complexities.

Introduction

Building a robust multi-account level infrastructure is imperative for all organisations that seek to scale their operations. The pivotal question arises: How do you effectively orchestrate account creation? Two predominant methods come into play — leveraging out-of-the-box solutions or opting for an in-house build. In this post, we’ll be reflecting on how we delve into constructing a comprehensive landing zone from the ground up on AWS.

Objectives

The objective was to establish a streamlined process for provisioning workload accounts on AWS, capable of supporting diverse business functions and global scalability. A key challenge was ensuring minimal development interaction, given the operations-centric nature of the team inheriting the landing zone.

Evaluating options

Given the requirements, we had to be diligent to ensure the solution would bring value to the client by enabling them to increase their throughput. We performed an extensive exploration of solutions evaluating multiple landing zone solutions.

Using Architectural Design Records (ADRs), we carefully assessed tradeoffs between each solution. Below is a high-level summary of our findings.