AWS TERRAFORM LANDING ZONE
AWS Terraform landing zone
An AWS landing zone defined entirely in Terraform. The architecture is modular and opinionated, so teams can describe their cloud environment in code and evolve it without rewriting it.
Terraform-defined
The full landing zone is described declaratively in Terraform: accounts, networking, identity, guardrails.
Integrations
Integrated with Jira for account requests, GitHub for source control, and Microsoft Entra ID for identity.
Standardisation
AWS best practices and a uniform module structure, so the design holds as you add accounts.
Continuous delivery
CI/CD pipelines apply changes to the landing zone in small, reviewable steps.
Senior engineers
Senior Terraform and AWS engineers from setup through day-two operations.
AWS best practices
Built against the AWS Well-Architected Framework, with a baseline security posture from day one.
01Summary
This case shows how our Terraform consultancy and cloud landing zone services combine into a single Infrastructure as Code engagement. The result is a standardised, secure AWS environment that fits the way the customer’s teams already work.
Integrations with Jira, GitHub and Microsoft Entra ID keep account requests, source control and identity in one workflow. Removing legacy modules and consolidating updates leaves a clear path for new accounts and new services as the platform grows.
02The challenge
Over years of cloud engineering, our team had seen the same patterns hurt landing zones: legacy modules nobody dared to touch, top-level changes rolled out by hand, and blind spots that came with many resources spread across many places. The design starts from those failures.
03The solution
Simplification was the answer. The entire account structure lives in code, which gives a solid base for shared resources, automation and integrations. The modules are designed to be replaced or extended one at a time.
The design shows how Terraform connects to common tools, with clear lines of responsibility:
- Jira: the engineering manager approves an account request.
- Terraform repo: provisions the account from input parameters and hands it off ready to use.
- Microsoft Entra ID: Terraform creates the identity groups; an admin team manages access by placing users in them.
- AWS: application developers work in the account within the guardrails set at creation time.
AWS, Azure
Design, Plan, Build
Everything in code: speed, consistency, repeatability
Centrally managed cloud infrastructure
Self-service cloud
Centralised security baseline
Read about our AWS Terraform landing zone service
Landing zones bundle cloud configuration: security, compliance, IAM/RBAC, networking, billing, logging, monitoring and auditing, plus the products that support specific workloads. They are delivered with Infrastructure as Code, so deployments are consistent and repeatable.
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