Features and benefits
Automate the creation of a sandbox environment
Transforms the sandbox setup process with automated deployment of organizational unit (OU) structures that adhere to best practices for workload isolation.
Accelerate environment setup with blueprints
Deploys pre-configured infrastructure to sandbox accounts automatically through CloudFormation StackSets, allowing users to get started with ready-to-use resources.
Enable team collaboration with shared leases
Shares a single sandbox account with multiple IAM Identity Center users and groups, so teams can collaborate in the same environment without provisioning separate accounts.
Enhanced operational efficiency
Reduces administrative overhead by implementing standardized policies, guardrails, and security controls across sandbox accounts automatically, ensuring consistent governance while saving valuable cloud administration time.
Establish cost governance
Maintains better cost control and takes necessary action to reduce unnecessary spend; monitors spend patterns, sends automated alerts at defined thresholds, and restricts access or clean up resources when budget thresholds are approached.
Gain visibility into sandbox usage
Centrally monitors all sandbox accounts, tracks sandbox usage metrics, and makes informed decisions with detailed visibility of sandbox environments using the web User Interface (UI).
Analyze sandbox costs natively in AWS Billing
Use account cost allocation tags to filter, group, and analyze sandbox spend by lease, user, cost report group, and lease template directly in AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and Cost and Usage Reports. The solution applies these tags automatically throughout the lease lifecycle.
Recycle and reuse AWS accounts
Efficiently reuses AWS accounts using a cleanup mechanism that is automatically initiated when the spend or time period reaches predefined limits. This systematic approach is designed to recycle sandbox environments and prepare them for new experiments, while minimizing administrative overheads.
Manage solution settings from the web UI
As an administrator, you manage global solution settings directly from the Settings page in the web UI, without using the AWS Management Console. These settings include lease policies, account cleanup behavior, maintenance mode, terms of service, and cost reporting.
