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A development team uses multiple AWS accounts for its development, staging, and production environments. Team members have been launching large Amazon EC2 instances that are underutilized. A solutions architect must prevent large instances from being launched in all accounts.

How can the solutions architect meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Update the IAM policies to deny the launch of large EC2 instances. Apply the policies to all users.
B. Define a resource in AWS Resource Access Manager that prevents the launch of large EC2 instances.
C. Create an IAM role in each account that denies the launch of large EC2 instances. Grant the developers IAM group access to the role.
D. Create an organization in AWS Organizations in the management account with the default policy. Create a service control policy (SCP) that denies the launch of large EC2 instances, and apply it to the AWS accounts.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by Hkayne at April 19, 2024, 2:44 p.m.

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Hkayne

Highly Voted 1 year, 2 months ago

Selected Answer: D

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps.html

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LeonSauveterre

Most Recent 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: D

A - You would need to update and maintain separate IAM policies in each account, which is too much trouble. B - AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) is primarily for resource sharing and does not directly restrict resource launches. C - IAM roles are better suited for granting access rather than imposing restrictions. You would also need to create and maintain these roles in every account, even more trouble than option A. D - SCPs are powerful here because they apply at the root account level, meaning that even if a developer has direct IAM permissions to launch large instances, the SCP will override and prevent it. Also, there's no need to create or manage multiple IAM policies or roles across accounts. Once the SCP is defined and applied, it enforces the restriction automatically.

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744fdad

10 months, 3 weeks ago

why is it not A? If the goal is only to prevent launch of EC2s

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78b9037

6 months, 1 week ago

Updating IAM policies must be done separately in each account, and policies for each user must be maintained, which will cause high operation overhead, so D.

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example_

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: D

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scps_examples.html

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