LZA and Control Tower

Question

Why is it recommended to use AWS Control Tower for LZA, What extra benefits do you get from it? Thank you in advance for your help an guidance.

Accepted Answer

hi,

AWS Control Tower offers you the capability to build and manage a multi account environment. It's a collection of 
1. Landing Zone
2. Guardrails 
3. Account Factory for automating account provisioning

You have a dashboard to monitor and control your LZ's and accounts. It provides blueprints with the best practices which we can pick for our landing zone and that significantly reduces the time on LZ creation. The difference lies with the prebuilt templates, guardrails and is designed to provide an easy, self-service setup experience and an interactive user interface.

Please refer this on why AWS Control Tower here: https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/aws-reinforce-2022/GRC374_Automate-governance-of-environments-with-AWS-Control-Tower.pdf

Thanks
Arun

Answer

In order to deploy LZA (Landing Zone Accelerator) you must have wither AWS Control Tower or AWS Organizations enabled. You can see the pre-requisite [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/landing-zone-accelerator-on-aws/prerequisites.html).

In terms of he benefits using LZA will have more features then using Control Tower alone and that is why it is recommended to deploy on top of Control Tower. LZA provides a comprehensive no-code solution across 35+ AWS services and gives you the automation to deploy SCP policies, complex network setup's with TGW and VPC creation, security controls with GuardDuty and SecurityHub and even add your own customized Cloudformation scripts on top of LZA natively. You can view the architecture diagram of what gets deployed [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/landing-zone-accelerator-on-aws/architecture-diagram.html).

if your organization has fewer accounts and less complexities it is recommended that you start with AWS Control Tower so it will be easier to manage and lower cost. If you require an enterprise level governance for your organization then would make sense to deploy LZA on top of it.

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