Check whether your AWS foundations are ready for growth
An AWS landing zone review helps you understand whether your AWS Organization, accounts, identity, networking, security, policies, monitoring and governance are structured properly.
What is an AWS landing zone review?
What we review
AWS Organization & Organizations OUs
Structure, hierarchy, ownership and inheritance of policy and access.
Accounts & resource groups
Naming, segmentation, ownership and tagging across the estate.
Identity & Entra ID
Role-based access control, conditional access and privileged identity management.
Networking
Hub-and-spoke patterns, segmentation, peering, firewalls and private endpoints.
AWS Config AWS Policy SCPs & governance
Policy assignments, exemptions, drift and consistency across accounts.
Security controls
Defender for Cloud posture, secrets, key vaults and recommendations.
Logging & monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch coverage, alerts, log analytics workspaces and retention.
Backup & recovery
Backup coverage, retention, recovery testing and DR readiness.
Cost management
Budgets, alerts, reservations and savings opportunities.
Tagging & ownership
Tag consistency, accountability and chargeback readiness.
DevOps standards
Deployment patterns, IaC, environment separation and release process.
Compliance evidence
Audit readiness and evidence collection for common frameworks.
Issues we typically uncover
- Too many accounts with unclear ownership
- No consistent naming or tagging model
- Security policies applied inconsistently
- Excessive user permissions
- Weak monitoring and logging coverage
- Unclear network segmentation
- No standard deployment patterns
- Poor cost visibility
- Governance retrofitted after the estate has grown
- Audit or compliance evidence hard to produce
What you get
Findings summary
A clear written summary of the state of your AWS foundations.
Prioritised risk list
Risks ranked by impact and effort so you know what to tackle first.
Quick wins
Changes that take days, not months, with measurable improvement.
Improvement roadmap
A phased plan covering governance, security, cost and operations.
Optional implementation
Hands-on AWS engineering to deliver the agreed improvements.
Handover & knowledge
Documentation and walkthroughs so your team can own what's delivered.
Best fit for these teams
- SaaS teams preparing to scale
- Businesses moving more workloads into AWS
- Companies preparing for audit, compliance or investment
- Technical teams that inherited an AWS estate
- Organisations unsure whether their AWS foundations are fit for purpose
AWS consulting FAQs
What is an AWS landing zone?
A landing zone is the core foundation of an AWS environment — AWS Organization, Organizations OUs, accounts, networking, identity, security and governance — that workloads are deployed into.
How long does a landing zone review take?
Most reviews are completed within 2–4 weeks, depending on the size of the estate and the number of accounts and workloads in scope.
Do we need to stop deploying to AWS during the review?
No. Reviews are non-intrusive. We work alongside your team and document findings without changing the live environment.
What deliverables do we get?
A prioritised findings summary, risk list, quick wins, governance recommendations and an optional improvement roadmap with implementation support.
Book an AWS landing zone review
Get a clear, prioritised view of your AWS foundations and what to improve next.