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Cloud multi-account governance

The practice of splitting cloud workloads across many accounts under a central organization, with policies, logging and security tooling applied from the top of the hierarchy.

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One allow-list SCP on an OU caps what every account below it can do

AWS Organizations permits an action only when SCPs allow it at every node from root to account, up to seven deep, a dev.to production guide explains. Its most common incident is one OU losing FullAWSAccess, so an AccessDenied has to be traced through the SCPs on every node in the path.

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