A secure, multi-account AWS landing zone built on the AWS-defined Landing Zone pattern, with the supporting services to actually run on. Identity, billing, monitoring, and a reference architecture of your choice, deployed via CloudFormation. Templates are yours.
Creating a solid foundation is the best way to ensure long-term success on AWS. Most accounts I pick up from other consultancies were built in a rush: single account, root user still in use, no consolidated billing, IAM policies copied from a Stack Overflow answer. Fixing that later is significantly more expensive than getting it right on day one.
Based on the AWS "Landing Zone" practice and hundreds of customer deployments, OrbitLAUNCH gets you up and running quickly using industry best practices. First AWS accounts, secured them properly, and a reference architecture of your choice, all in about a day.
Eight workstreams, all deployed via CloudFormation and aligned with AWS best practices.
Two AWS accounts deployed per best practice (master and member) with AWS Organizations, consolidated billing, and a sample Service Control Policy in place.
IAM policies, roles, and groups deployed via CloudFormation following AWS best practices. No more long-lived access keys, no shared admin accounts.
Audit logging and configuration history enabled across the environment, with a small set of alerts wired up so you actually know when something changes.
A baseline of CloudWatch events and alarms so you understand what's happening across your AWS environment from day one.
Amazon GuardDuty deployed and tuned for abnormal activity across your AWS accounts, with findings routed to the right place from the start.
Pick one: Windows, AWS Linux, or WordPress. Networking (VPC), compute (EC2), storage (EBS + S3), and database (RDS), all deployed via CloudFormation.
Every template used during the engagement is yours to keep and extend. No consulting infrastructure to migrate off later.
A consistent tagging strategy applied across everything deployed, so cost allocation and resource ownership are answerable from day one.
A short engagement, but the work is real. Here's what each workstream looks like under the hood.
Two AWS accounts (master and member) deployed securely, with consolidated billing set up and a sample Service Control Policy (SCP) implemented via AWS Organizations. The structure scales as you add more.
Getting this wrong is how accounts drift. I deploy a set of IAM policies, roles, and groups via CloudFormation following AWS best practices, so the account starts from a known-good state.
Two services designed to help audit and troubleshoot AWS deployments. Both are deployed and configured with a baseline set of alerts so you can understand events in your environment without having to dig.
A set of CloudWatch events and alarms to help you understand how your AWS environment is functioning, plus GuardDuty deployed to surface abnormal activity across your accounts.
Pick the reference architecture that best fits your stack. I'll implement and configure the networking (VPC), compute (EC2), storage (EBS and S3), and database (RDS) using CloudFormation. All templates are yours, so you can continue to expand the solution afterward.
OrbitLAUNCH is the foundation. From here, most customers either move into ongoing operations, or use the new environment as a base for the next service.
Patching, monitoring, cost guardrails, incident response: the unglamorous ops work that keeps an AWS account healthy.
02A point-in-time review of your environment against the checks I've built up over the years. You get a prioritized fix list and a report, walked through with me.
Send a paragraph about what you want to run on AWS and which reference architecture sounds closest. I'll reply with a quote and the available days.
