Ensure Organizations has SCPs enforcing regional restrictions
SCPs can restrict AWS service usage to approved regions, helping meet data residency requirements and reducing attack surface.
Security Impact
Without regional restrictions, resources can be created in unapproved regions, violating data residency compliance.
How to Remediate
Create SCPs that deny actions in non-approved regions using aws:RequestedRegion condition. Allow global services (IAM, CloudFront, Route53).
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-organizations-4
- Service
- AWS Organizations
- Category
- Compliance
- Severity
- MEDIUM
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