Data Landing Zone

Why do you need a Data Landing Zone?

Setting up your AWS environment without a Landing Zone can be an overwhelming and time-consuming process. Without the right foundation in place, you’ll face unnecessary complexity and delays. Managing multiple AWS accounts, implementing security best practices, and ensuring compliance will require a deep level of expertise and effort.

Here’s why a properly implemented Landing Zone is essential for accelerating your cloud journey:

👩‍💻 Expert Knowledge: To build a robust, scalable AWS environment, you need expertise in areas such as cloud architecture, IAM, networking, and cost optimization. A Landing Zone provides the necessary tools, templates, and automation, removing the need for constant, high-level expertise.

📈 Scalability: As your business grows, your cloud environment needs to grow with it. A Landing Zone ensures scalability and flexibility to meet future needs without compromising performance or security.

⚡ Reduce Time To Market: A well-architected Landing Zone streamlines account setup, networking, and security, ensuring a faster, more reliable deployment. Leaving you to focus on your Applications and not the cloud itself.

🔧 Reduced Complexity: With pre-configured guardrails and best practices, you avoid reinventing the wheel each time a new service or account is needed.

🔒 Security and Compliance: Landing Zones integrate security measures based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, ensuring your environment is aligned with best practices for security, compliance, and risk management.

What is the Data Landing Zone?

Accelerator

The Data Landing Zone creates a landing zone tailored for supporting and enabling AI, data-driven, data mesh, and cloud projects.

Landing Zone

The Data Landing Zone is first and foremost a Landing Zone. Taking care of the basics like security and networking so you can focus on your data and AI related projects.

All-in-one CDK component

A CDK construct published in Typescript and Python to orchestrate AWS accounts and all the resources needed for a Data Landing Zone.

Industry standards & Best practices

The DLZ follows the Well-Architected Framework for best practices on implementing a multi-account strategy to ensure that your projects are secure and compliant.

Ease of Use

Simple enough for Data Engineers to use independently, yet flexible and customizable for Cloud Engineers to fine-tune and optimize.

Comprehensive Documentation

Learn more by reading the documentation.