# AWS Control Tower

> AWS Control Tower sets up and governs a secure multi-account AWS environment (landing zone) with guardrails, account factory and centralized logging.

- Source: https://www.itwonderlab.com/aws-control-tower/
- Published: 2026-02-15
- Updated: 2026-02-15
- Author: Javier Ruiz Jiménez (https://www.javierruizjimenez.com/)
- Site: IT Wonder Lab (https://www.itwonderlab.com/)

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**AWS Control Tower** automates the creation of a multi-account landing zone on top of [AWS Organizations](https://www.itwonderlab.com/aws-organizations/): a management account, log archive and audit accounts, an organizational structure, preventive guardrails implemented as service control policies and detective guardrails implemented with [AWS Config](https://www.itwonderlab.com/aws-config/). **Account Factory** creates new accounts that follow the baseline, and Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) lets you request them from a pipeline.

It has no extra charge itself, but the services that it enables (Config, CloudTrail, S3) do. Compare building your own with [Terraform](https://www.itwonderlab.com/terraform-aws-organizations-multi-account/).