AWS Control Tower

Orchestrates a governed multi-account landing zone with preventive, detective and proactive controls.

Provider: aws
Kind: Policy engine
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/what-is-control-tower.html

Properties · 3 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
accountFactory · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
controlBehavior · component property	enum	preventive \| detective \| proactive	no	—	inherited
controlGuidance · component property	enum	mandatory \| strongly-recommended \| elective	no	—	inherited
effect	enum	audit \| deny \| modify \| deploy-if-not-exists	no	—	inherited
enforcementMode	enum	enforced \| disabled	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
mandatoryControlsApplied · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
policyCount	integer	—	no	—	inherited
remediation	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
scope	enum	resource \| group \| account \| organization	no	—	▸ organization

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  - { id: "control-tower", component: "aws-control-tower" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# AWS Control Tower: orchestrates a governed multi-account landing zone over Organizations, Service Catalog
3# and IAM Identity Center. Per "Control behavior and guidance", preventive controls are SCPs, RCPs and
4# declarative policies, detective controls are Config rules, proactive controls are CloudFormation hooks,
5# and from landing zone version 4.0 mandatory controls are no longer applied by default.
6schemaVersion: "1"
7type: "component"
8id: "aws-control-tower"
9kind: "policy-engine"
10provider: "aws"
11docs: "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/what-is-control-tower.html"
12defaults:
13  scope: "organization"
14  remediation: false
15  managed: true
16properties:
17  controlBehavior:
18    type: "enum"
19    values: ["preventive", "detective", "proactive"]
20  controlGuidance:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["mandatory", "strongly-recommended", "elective"]
23  mandatoryControlsApplied:
24    type: "boolean"
25    default: false
26  accountFactory:
27    type: "boolean"
28    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/aws-control-tower.md