Best practices for rapidly deploying Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

This article provides best practices for rapidly deploying Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) on AWS, focusing on implementing GitOps workflows for infrastructure management.

• LZA enables customers to deploy a flexible, configuration-driven landing zone using AWS Control Tower
• The solution uses two repositories: one for LZA source code and another for organization-specific configurations
• Key deployment steps include:
  • Preparing a private GitHub repository with LZA source code
  • Installing LZA as a CloudFormation stack
  • Validating two CodePipeline deployments
  • Migrating configuration from S3 to GitHub
• Supports GitOps by using Git repositories as the single source of truth for infrastructure configuration
• Helps organizations automate and manage cloud infrastructure with consistent, version-controlled environments

The approach aims to reduce deployment complexity and ensure compliance with organizational policies while establishing a robust AWS infrastructure foundation.