The increasing breadth and depth of cloud services makes the cloud a powerful enabler of efficiency, agility, and rapid innovation. However, building a foundational AWS Cloud environment requires decisions across multiple AWS and partner products, services, and solutions. Customers are looking for guidance to help them set up and operate an environment that is compatible with their IT practices, and enables their builders and operators while adhering to governance requirements.
This whitepaper introduces a guided path approach to help customers build and evolve their AWS Cloud environment based on a consolidated set of definitions, scenarios, guidance, and automations. The approach includes people, process, and technology considerations of establishing an AWS Cloud environment.