How Accenture Accelerates Building a Secure Cloud Foundation Natively on AWS

This article describes Accenture's Secure Cloud Foundation (SCF), a framework that accelerates and automates the setup of a secure and compliant cloud foundation on AWS for enterprises.

Specifically, the article covers:

• An introduction to Accenture's Velocity platform, which powers the SCF solution
• The 10 blocks that make up the SCF framework, covering areas like base foundation, network, identity, workload management, monitoring, data governance, and DevSecOps
• How SCF leverages AWS Control Tower for managing multi-account environments
• Details on the Tower Post Processor block for automating security configurations across new AWS accounts
• The IAM block for provisioning standardized IAM roles and permissions at scale
• The Central Network block for centralized management of network infrastructure, DNS, firewall policies, and traffic inspection
• Key benefits of SCF, including speed, cost-effectiveness, scalability, security, and compliance