Document history - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Document history

The following table describes significant changes to this guide. If you want to be notified about future updates, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Centralized egress best practices

We updated the best practices for securing egress traffic.

May 6, 2024

Organization best practices

We updated the best practices for creating an organization in AWS Organizations.

December 4, 2023

Billing considerations

We added the Billing considerations section.

September 20, 2023

Resource migration, application connectivity, and Amazon VPC Lattice

We added the Resource migration and Connecting applications sections. We also added information about a new AWS service, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Lattice.

April 27, 2023

Account history and ABAC

We revised the Create a landing zone section to add information about how to make sure your new AWS accounts have usage history so that you can add them to to your AWS Control Tower landing zone. We also revised the Add initial users section to add information about how you can use attribute-based access control (ABAC) to pass the authentication method from an external SAML-based IdP to AWS IAM Identity Center.

January 6, 2023

Egress traffic networking

We revised the Centralized egress section to add information about using Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to to limit egress traffic to specific domain names.

October 13, 2022

Security of egress traffic

We added Best practices for securing egress traffic.

October 6, 2022

Permissions boundaries

We improved the definition of a permissions boundary, and in the Resources section, we added a new link for more information about this topic.

September 22, 2022

Initial publication

September 6, 2022