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Disabling a policy type

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Disabling a policy type - AWS Organizations

If you no longer want to use a certain policy type in your organization, you can disable that type to prevent its accidental use. You can disable a policy type from only the organization's management account or a member account designated as a delegated administrator..

Considerations

Disabled policies are detached from all entities but not deleted

When you disable a policy type, all policies of the specified type are automatically detached from all entities in the organization root. The policies are not deleted.

(Service control policy type only) All entities in the root are initially attached to only the default FullAWSAccess SCP

(Service control policy type only) If you re-enable the SCP policy type later, all entities in the organization root are initially attached to only the default FullAWSAccess SCP. Attachments of SCPs to entities are lost when the SCPs are disabled in the organization. If you later want to re-enable SCPs, you must reattach them to the organization's root, OUs, and accounts, as appropriate.

Disable a policy type

Minimum permissions

To disable SCPs, you need permission to run the following actions:

  • organizations:DisablePolicyType

  • organizations:DescribeOrganization – required only when using the Organizations console

  • organizations:ListRoots – required only when using the Organizations console

AWS Management Console
To disable a policy type
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. On the Policies page, choose the name of the policy type that you want to disable.

  3. On the policy type page, choose Disable policy type.

  4. On the confirmation dialog box, enter the word disable, and then choose Disable.

    The list of available policies of the specified type disappears.

AWS CLI & AWS SDKs
To disable a policy type

You can use one of the following commands to disable a policy type:

  • AWS CLI: disable-policy-type

    The following example shows how to disable backup policies for your organization. Note that you must specify the ID of your organization's root.

    $ aws organizations disable-policy-type \ --root-id r-a1b2 \ --policy-type BACKUP_POLICY { "Root": { "Id": "r-a1b2", "Arn": "arn:aws:organizations::123456789012:root/o-aa111bb222/r-a1b2", "Name": "Root", "PolicyTypes": [] } }

    The list of PolicyTypes in the output no longer includes the specified policy type.

  • AWS SDKs: DisablePolicyType

To disable a policy type
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. On the Policies page, choose the name of the policy type that you want to disable.

  3. On the policy type page, choose Disable policy type.

  4. On the confirmation dialog box, enter the word disable, and then choose Disable.

    The list of available policies of the specified type disappears.

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