Overview - Establishing Your Cloud Foundation on AWS

Overview

When you are building your environment, access to your platform, your resources, and your applications needs to be established. First to build the environment, and second, to operate the environment through the established capabilities and services you build on it.

As you structure your environment, you want to delegate administrative tasks to different teams, and separate responsibilities across different functions. For example, implementing security tooling, managing the network, or creating central repositories. Different teams may be responsible, and granting access to administer and consume this resources and services you are building within the environment.

Access to your environment should be secured to all users, regardless of the function they will be responsible for. Enabling a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for every user is a requirement in order to meet a minimum-security standard.