Accounts and environments with defined roles
Isolation, billing, administration and lifecycle guide separation.
AWS + ADD SOLUTION
AWS starts with the foundation, not with choosing a service.
Designing cloud means deciding how accounts, identities, networks, data, costs and responsibilities will be controlled as the environment grows. Add Solution turns these requirements into a governable AWS foundation and architectures suited to each workload.
From landing zone to operations: architecture, deployment, migration and evolution guided by risk, resilience, cost and operational responsibility.
DECISIONS THAT SCALE
The account hosting the first application should not limit the hundredth.
An AWS deployment can start small yet carry decisions that are difficult to reverse: the management account, environment separation, identity ownership, addressing, logs, keys, backup and billing. Add Solution treats these decisions as platform architecture.
Controls proportionate to risk
Workloads receive protection and evidence according to impact and requirements.
Ownership before automation
Provisioning, approval, observability, incidents and costs need clear owners.
The foundation must enable autonomy without turning each team into its own cloud, security and finance department.
MULTI-ACCOUNT
A multi-account foundation with explicit responsibilities.
AWS Organizations structures accounts and OUs; AWS Control Tower can orchestrate the landing zone, apply controls and support provisioning. The architecture defines what will be centralized and what will remain with application teams.
- PRINCIPLES
Risk, autonomy, regions, data residency and operations.
- ORGANIZATION
OUs and accounts by role, environment or sensitivity.
- IDENTIDADE
Federation, permission sets and emergency access.
- CONTROLES
Organizational policies and proportionate controls.
- ACCOUNT VENDING
Accounts delivered through a repeatable process and a known baseline.
- EVIDÊNCIA
Logs, configuration, inventory and owners.
ACESSO HUMANO E DE WORKLOAD
People enter through federation; workloads receive their own identities.
IAM Identity Center can integrate the identity source and distribute access through permission sets. Roles and temporary credentials reduce permanent keys. Root access receives exceptional, protected and monitored treatment.
Least privilege with context
Permissions derived from actual platform, networking, security, development and auditing activities.
Restricted cross-account trust
Roles, conditions and boundaries prevent delegation beyond what is necessary.
Continuous review
Inactive access, exceptions and privilege use are addressed in operations.
FLUXOS ANTES DE CIDRS
Available connectivity does not mean authorized, observable or resilient connectivity.
VPCs, subnets, routes, zones, DNS, endpoints and inspection are defined by authorized flows. Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, VPN and Direct Connect are assessed according to scale, topology, redundancy, confidentiality and cost.
- ENDEREÇAR
A non-overlapping plan prepared for integration.
- SEGMENTAR
Boundaries consistent with accounts, applications and risk.
- CONECTAR
Hybrid and inter-VPC paths with explicit routes.
- INSPECIONAR
Egress, private endpoints and controls according to exposure.
- OBSERVAR
Telemetry, failures, asymmetry and transfer costs.
MODELO OPERACIONAL
Service selection depends on the workload and operational responsibility.
EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, EFS and FSx are introduced only when requirements, constraints, skills and operational effort justify the choice. AI is assessed when the use case, data, risk and operations are defined.
Compute
System control, elasticity, duration, concurrency and portability guide the choice of VMs, containers or serverless.
Dados
Model, consistency, recovery, latency and portability guide databases and storage.
Managed services
They reduce specific tasks but do not eliminate identity, networking, observability or application limits.
AI with purpose
Bedrock or ML services only where data, governance and outcomes justify them.
RESPONSABILIDADE COMPARTILHADA
AWS protects cloud infrastructure; the customer remains responsible for what they build on it.
The division of tasks varies by service. Identities, data, configurations, applications and controls within the customer's domain still require governance, evidence and response.
Configuration and inventory
Resources and deviations must be identified and assigned to owners.
Data, secrets and keys
Classification, access, encryption and rotation follow the lifecycle.
Detection with response
CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty and other signals need owners and an operational workflow.
Controlled exposure
WAF, Network Firewall and network controls are included according to the surface and architecture.
MULTI-AZ, BACKUP AND DR
Cada mecanismo responde a eventos de falha diferentes.
Architecture starts with criticality, RPO, RTO, state, dependencies and capacity during failure. Multi-AZ requires application support. Multi-region increases cost and complexity and must be justified and tested.
AWS Backup with verified coverage
Policies, vaults and copies are defined only for supported resources and scenarios.
Failure separation
Accounts, regions, credentials and administration are assessed according to risk.
Tested recovery
Restore, failover and failback receive criteria and evidence.
Snapshots and replication do not automatically replace backup; disaster recovery is demonstrated only when exercised.
SIGNALS THAT DRIVE ACTION
Metrics and logs help only when they reach someone who can act.
CloudWatch, CloudTrail and Config generate distinct signals. Add Solution defines telemetry for each critical service; alarms receive context, priority, an owner and an action; logs follow defined retention and access policies.
- OBSERVAR
Health, experience and dependencies.
- DETECTAR
Actionable events with reduced noise.
- RESPONDER
Runbook, access, communication and owners.
- APRENDER
Post-incident review and lasting fixes.
- AUTOMATIZAR
Known, testable and reversible tasks.
FINOPS NA ARQUITETURA
Cost is a property of architecture and operations.
Data transfer, NAT Gateway, logs, snapshots, calls and idle resources can be as significant as compute. Accounts, tags and allocation must reflect controllable decisions before discounts are pursued.
Financial responsibility
Technical and financial domains receive owners and allocation criteria.
Deviation detection
Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection need a recipient and procedure.
Otimização contínua
Sizing, schedules, orphaned resources, storage, logs and data transfer are part of the cycle.
Informed commitments
Savings Plans and Reserved Instances come after visibility and analysis of eligible usage.
MOVER O QUE FOI COMPREENDIDO
Tools accelerate execution; dependencies define the plan.
Applications, data, integrations, licenses, windows and owners guide the choice of rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, relocate, retain or retire. Application Migration Service, DMS and DataSync support specific scenarios without replacing inventory and validation.
- DESCOBRIR
Portfolio, dependencies, criticality and costs.
- CLASSIFICAR
Readiness, constraints and strategy per workload.
- FUNDAR
Accounts, identity, networking, security, backup and operations.
- PILOTAR
Tools, connectivity, performance and procedures.
- MIGRAR
Waves with acceptance and rollback.
- ESTABILIZAR
Costs, incidents, documentation and transition.
FROM ASSESSMENT TO OPERATIONS
Cloud does not eliminate operations. It changes what needs to be operated.
Work can start in an existing account, a landing zone that needs to evolve or a new initiative. Assessment, architecture, infrastructure as code, migration, observability, FinOps, documentation and ongoing operational support are combined according to the customer's stage.
We design a foundation that teams can govern, operate and evolve.
REGION, QUOTAS AND CONTRACTS
Service availability does not eliminate region, quota, licensing or support limits.
Services vary by region, deployment model, quota and billing. Third-party software may use license included, Marketplace or BYOL, subject to the vendor's terms. Add Solution support covers the scope contracted with the customer; AWS Support is contracted separately and follows the chosen plan.
PERGUNTAS FREQUENTES
What to decide before expanding the environment.
Does every company need Control Tower?
No. It is an option for governing multi-account environments; implementation depends on scale, existing accounts and the operating model.
Does Multi-AZ guarantee continuity?
Not on its own. The application must handle state and dependencies. Multi-AZ does not replace backup or DR.
Does Direct Connect eliminate the need for VPN or redundancy?
No. Connection, equipment, location, provider and confidentiality still need to be addressed.
How can costs be made predictable?
With owners, allocation, budgets, alerts, usage review and architecture before financial commitments.
Is backup in another region always necessary?
No. The decision depends on failure events, residency, RPO, RTO, cost and strategy.
Who is responsible for security?
AWS and the customer have different responsibilities, which vary according to the service used.
SOLUÇÕES RELACIONADAS
Cloud conectada à operação.
ADD SOLUTION + AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)
Build an AWS foundation that remains governable as the environment grows.
Assess accounts, identity, networking, security, recovery, costs and operations to build a controllable, sustainable cloud foundation.