AWS Service Control Policy Architecture

ACM.169 Designing maintainable, readable, and secure service control policies

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
9 min readFeb 27, 2023

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In the last post, I showed you some of the issues you might face when trying to close an account. There are also some risks you will want to be aware of related to removing accounts from an AWS organization — who in your organization can remove accounts from the organization?

In this post, we want to take a bit deeper dive look at a strategy for designing Service Control Policies on AWS before we start recreating our organization and integrating with Okta.

Service Control Policy Architecture Components

Before we start designing our Service Control Policies, we need to understand a bit about how multiple…

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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