112. What is a Service Control Policy (SCP)?

In this episode, we provide a friendly introduction to Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations. We explain what SCPs are, how they work, common use cases, and tips for troubleshooting access-denied errors related to SCPs. We cover how SCPs differ from identity-based and resource-based policies, and how SCPs can be used to set boundaries on maximum permissions in AWS accounts across an organization.

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🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to service control policies
01:04 Different types of policies in AWS
02:14 Overview of AWS Organizations
07:12 How SCPs work and their key characteristics
12:14 Common use cases for SCPs
16:30 Creating SCPs with infrastructure as code
17:34 Tips for troubleshooting access denied errors from SCPs
18:26 Closing



In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

- Episode 96: "AWS Governance and Landing Zone with Control Tower, Org Formation, and Terraform": https://awsbites.com/96-aws-governanc...
- Episode 40: "What do you need to know about IAM?": https://awsbites.com/40-what-do-you-n...
- Conor Maher's repo with some SCP examples: https://github.com/conzy/terraform-demo


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