Is your AWS environment becoming more complex, harder to manage, and exposing your organization to security risks? If so, it may be time to consider AWS Control Tower.
As biotech and life sciences organizations expand cloud usage across teams, innovation often accelerates—but without proper governance, environments quickly become fragmented. This threatens compliance, security, and efficiency, particularly for research-driven firms working under regulatory frameworks like HIPAA and GxP.
PTP, an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Partner with the AWS Life Sciences Competency, supports customers at two key stages of AWS cloud adoption:
Mature AWS Users
Organizations that have been using AWS for years often lack centralized governance. Multi-account sprawl, inconsistent security configurations, and limited automation are common. These organizations may not have originally considered:
Compliance frameworks
Secure provisioning standards
Networking and access controls
Multi-account structure best practices
PTP helps these teams establish a foundation for sustainable, secure operations with CloudOps services and tailored AWS Control Tower designs.
New AWS Adopters
For organizations beginning their cloud journey, PTP builds secure, scalable AWS foundations from the start—integrating compliance, access control, and security guardrails through Control Tower. With support from PeakPlus, clients receive 24x7x365 monitoring and management from a team experienced in managed cloud services for life sciences.
Why AWS Control Tower?
AWS Control Tower provides automated, standardized governance across your AWS accounts. It includes:
Centralized logging and monitoring
Identity management with single sign-on
Account vending with security baselines
Guardrails for cost optimization and policy enforcement
Configurable blueprints to meet life sciences compliance
This is especially important for research and biotech teams where data integrity, traceability, and role-based access are critical for compliant IT services for research labs.
Not Just for Enterprises
While some early-stage users worry that Control Tower is "too much" for small environments, our experience shows that it's never too early to implement solid cloud governance. Even biotech startups benefit from strong foundations in multi-account architecture, secure networking, and compliance readiness.
What PTP Delivers
Through our Cloud Governance engagement, PTP helps biotech and clinical organizations transition from fragmented cloud deployments to structured, compliant AWS environments.
Our approach includes:
Automated multi-account setup
Identity access configuration (SSO, IAM)
Security Monitoring and alerting
Scalable network architecture
Cloud spend visibility via FinOps
Ongoing support with PeakPlus managed services
The result: a secure, scalable, and audit-ready AWS environment aligned with your scientific and operational goals.
Ready to Take Control?
Whether you're migrating your first research application or managing dozens of AWS accounts, AWS Control Tower helps reduce risk while accelerating growth. PTP provides the expertise, automation, and research IT support services needed to simplify your cloud strategy and keep your focus on innovation.
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Highlights from the Panel Discussion
AWS Control Tower is the foundation for secure cloud growth. Panelists emphasized that Control Tower goes beyond automation—it's a scalable governance framework that helps life sciences and biotech organizations grow in AWS securely, without losing visibility or control.
Multi-account visibility is a major advantage. As research teams expand across cloud environments, managing dozens of AWS accounts becomes a challenge. Control Tower enforces guardrails, centralizes policy, and supports shared services architecture to improve visibility organization-wide.
PeakPlus enhances governance with continuous support. Integrated with PTP's PeakPlus managed cloud services, Control Tower delivers real-time compliance monitoring, spend tracking, and 24x7x365 support—key for life sciences IT support.
Repeatable architecture accelerates adoption. Using Control Tower to deploy secure AWS landing zones allows biotech and research teams to onboard apps or departments without rebuilding governance each time—making scale fast and standards-compliant.
Compliance readiness is built in. Centralized logging, security baselining, and integrated identity management help meet HIPAA, GxP, and NIST requirements—crucial for compliant IT services for research labs.
Security starts at the foundation. “The biggest risk in cloud growth is lack of oversight,” one panelist noted. Control Tower reduces the cloud attack surface by establishing consistent security baselines—essential for any secure IT service for biotech.
Governance without slowing innovation. Control Tower lets DevOps and infrastructure teams move fast—without sacrificing compliance. By decoupling policy enforcement from development velocity, it enables innovation to scale safely.
Take control of your AWS environment with expert guidance.
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