Organizations
6 articles on Organizations — AWS security, compliance, and account management from the Vigilare team.
Cross-Account CloudTrail: Centralizing Audit Logs Across Your AWS Organization
Centralizing CloudTrail logs across multiple AWS accounts is essential for security investigations, compliance evidence, and anomaly detection. This guide covers the architecture for tamper-resistant centralized audit logging.
Viktor B. · January 5, 2026 · 7 min read
AWS Cross-Account Access: IAM Roles and Trust Policies at Scale
Cross-account access through IAM role assumption is foundational to multi-account AWS architectures. This guide covers trust policy design, security constraints for role assumption, and monitoring patterns that maintain visibility across account boundaries.
Vigilare Engineering · January 4, 2026 · 9 min read
AWS Organizational Unit Structure: Designing for Scale and Security
Your OU structure determines how policies, billing, and governance apply across your AWS Organization. This guide covers the design patterns and tradeoffs for OUs that support both operational needs and security requirements.
Vigilare Engineering · December 18, 2025 · 8 min read
AWS Control Tower Setup: Automated Landing Zone for Multi-Account AWS
AWS Control Tower provides a pre-configured, best-practice landing zone for multi-account AWS environments. This guide covers what Control Tower sets up, what it doesn't, and how to extend it for your organization's requirements.
Viktor B. · December 17, 2025 · 9 min read
AWS Service Control Policies: Implementing Organization-Wide Guardrails
Service Control Policies are the strongest access control mechanism in AWS — they override IAM policies, apply to all principals including root, and can't be circumvented within an account. This guide covers SCP design, testing, and common guardrail patterns.
Vigilare Engineering · December 16, 2025 · 9 min read
AWS Organizations Best Practices: Structure, Policies, and Governance
AWS Organizations transforms multi-account management from ad-hoc to systematic. This guide covers account structure design, Service Control Policy strategy, and the governance practices that make Organizations a security and operational asset.
Viktor B. · December 15, 2025 · 10 min read