Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 topic 1 question 419 discussion

The correct answer is (C) and (E). Option (C): Creating an SCP and attaching it to the root organizational unit (OU) will deny the ec2:CreateVolume action when the ec2:Encrypted condition equals false. This means that any IAM user or root user in any account in the organization will not be able to create an EBS volume without encrypting it. Option (E): Specifying the Default EBS volume encryption setting in the Organizations management account will ensure that all new EBS volumes created in any account in the organization are encrypted by default.

CE Prevent future issues by creating a SCP and set a default encryption.

Answer will be A&C. AWS does not currently provide a direct setting at the organization level to enforce default EBS encryption across all member accounts in AWS Organizations. However, you can achieve this goal by implementing default encryption at the account level and enforcing compliance using an SCP (Service Control Policy).

C and E as shaded by guru4cloud

The problem here is we don't know in which account the workload is on. The account in ap-xx-is that the management account or it's a member account?? That will decide to select either A or E. C is certainly correct

(A) is incorrect bc absent of SCP or the Organizations management account, the scope of the EC2 console is too narrow to be applied to 'any IAM user or root user'.

https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/ebs-automatic-encryption Newly created Amazon EBS volumes aren't encrypted by default. However, you can turn on default encryption for new EBS volumes and snapshot copies that are created within a specified Region. To turn on encryption by default, use the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console.

A: will enforce automatic encryption in a account. This will have no effect on employees. Do this in every account. B: permission boundary is not appropriate here. C: an SCP will force employees to create encrypted volumes in every account. D: This would work but is too much maintenance. E: Setting EBS volume encryption in the Organizations management account will only have impact on volumes in that account, not on other accounts.

The solution should "have minimal effect on employees who create EBS volumes". Thus new volumes should automatically be encrypted. Options B, C and D do NOT automatically encrypt volumes, they simply cause requests to create non-encrypted volumes to fail.

Wondering if just C would be sufficient?

Seems many people selected E as part of the correct answer. But I didn't find so called Organization level EBS default setting in my Organization management account. I tried setting default EBS encryption setting in my Organization management account, and it didn't apply to the member account. If E cannot guarantee default encryption in all other account, E has no advantage over A. Anyone can explain why E is better than A?

Option A: By default, EBS encryption is not enabled for EC2 instances. However, you can set an EBS encryption by default in your AWS account in the Amazon EC2 console. This ensures that every new EBS volume that is created is encrypted. Option E: With AWS Organizations, you can centrally set the default EBS encryption for your organization's accounts. This helps in enforcing a consistent encryption policy across your organization. Option B, C and D are not correct because while you can use IAM policies or SCPs to restrict the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes, this could potentially impact employees' ability to create necessary resources if not properly configured. They might require additional permissions management, which is not mentioned in the requirements. By setting the EBS encryption by default at the account or organization level (Options A and E), you can ensure all new volumes are encrypted without affecting the ability of employees to create resources.

SCPs are a great way to enforce policies across an entire AWS Organization, preventing users from creating resources that do not comply with the set policies. In AWS Management Console, one can go to EC2 dashboard -> Settings -> Data encryption -> Check "Always encrypt new EBS volumes" and choose a default KMS key. This ensures that every new EBS volume created will be encrypted by default, regardless of how it is created.

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Encryption by default allows you to ensure that all new EBS volumes created in your account are always encrypted, even if you don’t specify encrypted=true request parameter. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/must-know-best-practices-for-amazon-ebs-encryption/

CとEが正しいと考える。

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