AWS Landing Zone versus AWS Control Tower

What is the difference between AWS Landing Zones and AWS Control Tower? Customised Solution or Managed Service?!

AWS Landing Zone and AWS Control Tower help set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment based on AWS best practices. Both consist of core accounts and resources which will implement a initial security baseline.
The following table compares the managed service (AWS Control Tower) with the solution (AWS Landing Zone).

Update:

🚨 AWS Control Tower allows existing organizations to set up a landing zone.

Feature
Delivery mechanism	CloudFormation or Terraform	AWS managed service
Architectural support	Fully customizable and owned by customer	Customizable via Solution + AWS recommend best practices with managed blueprints and guardrails
Account structure	Complete flexibility for customer-defined account structure	Two non-configurable core accounts, no SS, no Amazon VPC in core
Federated access	AWS SSO, AWS-Managed Microsoft AD or Active Directory Connector	Preconfigured with AWS SSO (AD or SSO Directory?) and integrated with third-party SSO providers
Operations	Extensible capabilities to manage the most complex and advanced environments	Simple setup and management for reduced operational overhead
Automated account creation	✅ Account Vending Machine	✅
Member account region support (VPC)	✅ All regions are supported1	➖ North-Virginia (us-east-1), Ohio (us-east-2), Oregon (us-west-2), Irland (eu-west-1), Sydney (ap-southeast-2) 2
General region support	✅ All regions are supported	➖ North-Virginia (us-east-1), Ohio (us-east-2), Oregon (us-west-2), Irland (eu-west-1), Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
Use existing AWS Organization	✅	✅
Use existing SSO environment	✅	❌
Use existing AWS Service Catalog environment	✅	❌
New or Existing Security Hub environment	✅ Multiaccount Scripts	✅

References

AWS Landing Zone

• 📚 Implementation Guide
• 📚 Developers Guide
• 📚 User Guide
• 📚 Upgrade Guide
• 📺 Videos
• 🧰 Solutions
• - 🔧 Account Vending Machine
• - 🔧 Security Hub Multiaccount Scripts

AWS Control Tower

• 📚 User Guide
• 📚 Pricing
• 🎓 Labs
• 📺 Videos
• 🧰 Solutions
• - 🔧 Customizations for AWS Control Tower
• - 🔧 Enabling guardrails in new AWS Regions the AWS Control Tower supports

Which one should I choose?

❓Are you new two AWS?
❗️Use AWS Control Tower
❓Do you need a configurable landing zone with full customization and control over every part?
❗️Use AWS Landing Zone

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1. Member accounts could be provisioned in every region no matter where the Account Vending Machine is deployed. ⚠️You just need to take care that your CloudFormation templates & Lambdas are available in the requested region.  ↩

2. AWS Control Tower could provision new Accounts (Network baseline) into the following regions: North-Virginia (us-east-1), Ohio (us-east-2), Oregon (us-west-2), Irland (eu-west-1) and Sydney (ap-southeast-2). ↩