Search and discover governance controls with Control Catalog in AWS Control Tower

This article introduces AWS Control Tower's Control Catalog, a unified governance control management solution for large-scale AWS environments.

• Control Catalog provides centralized visibility of 1,000+ controls across security, cost, compliance domains
• Controls mapped to 17 compliance frameworks including PCI DSS, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO standards
• Unified interface replaces navigating multiple AWS service consoles for control discovery
• Shows control relationships and complementary controls to eliminate gaps and redundancies
• Enables organization-wide deployment of controls across hundreds or thousands of accounts
• Supports filtering by service, compliance framework, and 12+ dimensions for targeted discovery
• Accessible via console, API, CLI, and SDKs for programmatic automation

Control Catalog streamlines governance management by consolidating control discovery, evaluation, and deployment into a single interface, reducing weeks of manual work to minutes.