Secure Cloud Foundation for AWS

Accenture's Secure Cloud Foundation (SCF) for Mid-Market is a security automation and accelerator solution that builds and implements a production-ready AWS landing zone using AWS Control Tower, helping mid-market organizations accelerate their path to running workloads on AWS with greater confidence in their security and compliance posture. Co-developed with AWS, SCF delivers a scalable, version-controlled foundation with pre-configured security controls designed to strengthen your security posture, built-in compliance frameworks (CIS, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP Moderate, ACSC, NCSC), and responsible AI configurations aligned with AWS AI governance guidance, accelerating cloud migration, modernization, and time-to-market across multi-region AWS environments.

SCF is delivered as four additive tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, so customers can select the modules that best fit their environment and budget. The solution is built entirely on AWS-native services and works on its own, without requiring any third-party tooling. For customers who already use, or plan to use, leading ISV solutions, SCF includes optional, out-of-the-box accelerators that streamline onboarding and configuration. Supported ISVs include Okta, Ping, OneLogin, and Microsoft Active Directory for federated identity; CrowdStrike and Rapid7 for endpoint protection; Palo Alto and Zscaler for network security; and Qualys and Tanium for vulnerability and asset management. These integrations are pre-engineered, optional, and fully customer-selectable, giving mid-market organizations the flexibility to standardize on AWS-native tooling, bring their existing ISV investments, or blend both with no custom code required.

Core capabilities include a Control Tower Post Processor that provisions AWS-native security services, continuously monitors for configuration drift, and helps remediate deviations; Central Network automation for resilient cross-account and cross-region connectivity; IAM with least-privilege access controls and federated identity; Endpoint hardening via Golden AMI pipelines; Backup and Disaster Recovery using AWS Backup; centralized Log Aggregation feeding Amazon Security Lake; Container image security on Amazon ECR; FinOps-driven Cost Optimization with AWS Cost Explorer; automated Patching with AWS Systems Manager; and Secure AI tooling integrated with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon GuardDuty.

This is a professional services offering that accelerates customer adoption of AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Backup, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Security Lake, AWS Cost Explorer, Amazon ECR, AWS Network Firewall, Amazon Bedrock, and other AWS-native security and governance services. Accenture's skilled practitioners deliver discovery, design, build, deployment, knowledge transfer, and HyperCare support, leaving the customer with a self-sustaining, AWS Well-Architected foundation with no custom Accenture components, helping reduce vendor lock-in.

This is a featured solution from Accenture Edge. Accenture Edge helps mid-market companies modernize with practical, scalable solutions, bringing enterprise-grade innovation within reach for growing businesses that move fast and expect more.