A healthcare provider hosts HIPAA-compliant applications across multiple AWS accounts managed under a single organization in AWS Organizations. The security team mandates that AWS Config must remain enabled and recording in all member accounts within the Workloads Organizational Unit (OU). Individual administrators in these member accounts must retain full administrator privileges (AdministratorAccess) to deploy workloads but must be prevented from stopping the configuration recorder, deleting the delivery channel, or modifying the configuration recorder settings. Which strategy will meet these requirements with the least operational overhead?
- Attach a Service Control Policy (SCP) to the Workloads Organizational Unit (OU) that denies the config:StopConfigurationRecorder, config:DeleteDeliveryChannel, and config:PutConfigurationRecorder actions.Cevap
- BAttach a Service Control Policy (SCP) directly to the system administrator IAM roles in each member account that denies modifying or deleting AWS Config resources.
- CUse AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) to share a standard IAM permissions boundary from the management account to all member accounts, restricting modification of AWS Config.
- DConfigure AWS Config to encrypt all recording data using the default AWS-managed KMS key (aws/config), and update its key policy to deny access to the AWS Config APIs for member account administrators.
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Attaching a Service Control Policy (SCP) to the Workloads Organizational Unit (OU) that denies the config:StopConfigurationRecorder, config:DeleteDeliveryChannel, and config:PutConfigurationRecorder actions.
Attaching a Service Control Policy (SCP) to the Workloads Organizational Unit (OU) with explicit deny actions for AWS Config modification effectively blocks all local administrators (and the root user) from disabling or tampering with AWS Config. This provides centralized governance with minimal operational effort.
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Using Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations as administrative guardrails to restrict member account administrators' permissions.