CLF-C02 Practice Question 113: Multi Account Landing Zone
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) · Test 12 · question 3 of 10
A company is growing from 3 AWS accounts to more than 50. It wants to set up a secure multi-account environment that follows AWS prescriptive best practices in a short time, apply preventive and detective guardrails across accounts, and give teams a standard, self-service way to create new accounts that are compliant from the start. Which service should it use?
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Answer:
AWS Control Tower is a straightforward way to set up and govern a multi-account AWS environment following prescriptive best practices. It orchestrates AWS Organizations, AWS Service Catalog and AWS IAM Identity Center to build a landing zone in less than an hour. It applies controls (also called guardrails), which can be preventive, detective or proactive, to keep accounts from drifting away from best practices. Its Account Factory provides configurable templates so teams can provision new accounts with pre-approved configurations.
Option A, AWS Config, records and evaluates resource configurations. It is one kind of detective control, but it doesn't build a multi-account landing zone or provision accounts. Option B, AWS Service Catalog, lets administrators publish approved products for users to deploy. Control Tower uses it under the hood for Account Factory, but on its own it doesn't set up a governed multi-account environment. Option D, AWS RAM, shares specific resources between accounts. It doesn't create accounts or apply guardrails.
Reference: What Is AWS Control Tower?