A Control Tower Landing Zone with Governed Regions, Logging Kept a Year, and Controls per Unit
A Control Tower landing zone from a manifest the module writes: the governed regions (the only usable ones), the Security and Sandbox units, centralized logging in the log archive account you name kept a year (access logs ten) under your KMS key (the AWS-managed key by name), the audit account, Identity Center access, and the controls you map to organizational units.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- Security scan clean (Checkov)
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-15 · how we verify
Use it from the registry
terraform · opentofumodule "control_tower" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/aws-control-tower/aws"
version = "1.0.0"
}Needs a registry token from /account/tokens. The module itself is free; the account is what identifies you. Full setup: registry docs.
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Documentation
aws-control-tower
An AWS Control Tower landing zone with governed regions, the Security
and Sandbox units, centralized logging kept for a year under your key,
and the controls applied per unit. Works with Terraform and
OpenTofu (>= 1.6), aws provider >= 6.0, < 7.0.
The log archive and audit accounts exist first; named here.
Logs are kept for a year and encrypted with your key; shorter and the AWS-managed key by name.
Governed regions are the only regions.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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