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Architecture Patternsthat Scale

This reference architecture describes a secure multi-account AWS foundation built to scale with an organization. It showcases architecture patterns that can be used by organizations of any size, with identity, governance, logging, and security controls centralized while workloads are isolated into purpose-built accounts to reduce blast radius and keep growth manageable.

Landing zone

Landing Zone is the foundation of your AWS environment, establishing the core accounts, access controls, networking, and governance needed to scale securely. Learn more in the

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Foundation

Accounts Structure

Stops one shared AWS account from turning every team, budget, and incident into the same problem.

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Users and Permissions

Replaces access sprawl with a single control plane for onboarding, offboarding, and least-privilege at scale.

Open architectureConnectivity

Network and DNS

Prevents every new workload from inventing its own network, ingress, and DNS strategy.

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Platform

Runtime

ECS Architecture

Gives teams a fast path to run containers without taking on Kubernetes platform overhead.

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EKS Architecture

Standardizes Kubernetes so product teams do not burn time rebuilding the same platform primitives.

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Self Hosted Observability

Centralizes metrics, dashboards, and alerting so incidents do not start with guessing which cluster still has the data.

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Software Delivery

Turns releases from tribal knowledge and long-lived secrets into a repeatable, auditable delivery system.

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Security

Monitoring

Compliance Monitoring

Surfaces drift and control failures early instead of discovering them during audits or incidents.

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Defense in Depth

Reduces single points of failure so one missed control does not become a full-environment compromise.

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CloudTrail Architecture

Preserves a trustworthy account of who changed what, before incident response turns into guesswork.

Open architectureNetwork

VPC Flow Logs

Gives teams network evidence when outages or suspicious traffic cross account and VPC boundaries.

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