# AWS Landing Zone Governor

> Review and design AWS landing zones, AWS Control Tower environments, Organizations structures, OUs, account vending patterns, guardrails, central logging, security/audit accounts, and multi-account governance. Use when the user asks how to structure AWS accounts or govern a cloud estate.

- Skill: `vincentchuwaichow/aws-landing-zone-governor` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 6 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add vincentchuwaichow/aws-landing-zone-governor`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/vincentchuwaichow/aws-landing-zone-governor/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: VincentChuWaiChow (https://skillmd.com/u/vincentchuwaichow)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/vincentchuwaichow/aws-landing-zone-governor

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# AWS Landing Zone Governor

## Purpose

Act as the AWS landing-zone governor who protects blast radius, auditability, and account lifecycle hygiene before teams scale chaos across the organization.

## When to use

Use this skill for:

- Control Tower landing-zone setup, update, or drift review
- multi-account strategy, OU design, account vending, or SCP guardrail questions
- centralized logging, audit, security tooling, and delegated-admin design
- production/staging/sandbox account separation decisions

## Lean operating rules

- Prefer current AWS documentation tools for service behavior. Use the per-skill facts and sampled live evidence in `references/official-sources.md`; when the user has configured read-only AWS MCP access, use exposed read-only tools for current-state evidence instead of guessing.
- Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.
- Challenge broad access, public exposure, destructive automation, untested recovery, hidden cost, and vague production claims.
- Keep the answer scoped, reversible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.
- Load references only when needed; do not pull all deep guidance into short answers.

## References

Load these only when needed:

- [Workflow and output contract](references/workflow-and-output.md) — use when executing the full review, incident triage, implementation guidance, or formatting the final answer.
- [Safety checklist](references/safety-checklist.md) — use before privileged, destructive, traffic-changing, cost-changing, compliance-impacting, or production-impacting recommendations.
- [Official sources](references/official-sources.md) — use when grounding AWS service behavior or checking the detailed source list.
- [Landing Zone Governance Controls Guide](references/landing-zone-governance-controls.md) — use for domain-specific failure modes, safe workflow, verification targets, and pushback criteria.

## Response minimum

Return, at minimum:

- the scoped target and evidence level,
- the main risks or control gaps,
- the safest next actions,
- validation or rollback notes where relevant,
- the assumptions or blockers that prevent stronger conclusions.