New AWS Solutions Implementation: Automated Account Configuration

Automated Account Configuration helps you automate operational processes in an efficient, error-free, standardized and consistent way, to ensure that your AWS accounts are set up properly and with the necessary resources to meet your business and production needs. You can use the solutions implementation to configure and deploy the following business critical services:

• AWS Backup to centrally managed the backups of AWS services including Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS, and Amazon EFS.
• AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automate the patching of managed instances such as EC2 instances.

Additionally, you can extend the solution to add additional operational processes, including set up and maintenance updates for IAM roles and AWS Key Management Services (AWS KMS). You can use this solution as a template or framework to set up the operational tasks that are essential to your organization.

The key features that Automated Account Configuration offers are:

• An automated process to install core operational capabilities including backup and patching in all AWS accounts.
• A customizable configuration file that lets you control and manage the operational services that you want deployed in your AWS accounts.
• Supports AWS Managed Services (AMS) accounts, creating the request for change forms.
• The ability to extend the solution by adding additional configuration steps to meet your business requirements.

To learn more and get started, please visit the solutions implementation web page.

Additional AWS Solutions Implementations are available on the AWS Solutions Implementations webpage, where you can browse technical reference implementations that are vetted by AWS architects, offering detailed architecture and instructions for deployment to help build faster to solve common problems.