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+# AWS Organizations Service Control Policies
+---
+
+## Description
+
+A repository of community generated Service control policies (SCPs) and reference links to ensure proper governance and access control guidelines across your entire organization. Please feel free to contribute or submit a pull request if you would like to improve an existing SCP or share additional ones.
+
+## Example Policies
+
+- [us-regions-only](us-regions-only.policy) - Deny actions unless performed in one of the US related regions
+
+- [prevent-resourcesharing](prevent-resourcesharing.policy) - Prevent account from creating or deleting resource shares within the organization
+
+- [prevent-disabling-cloudtrail](prevent-disabling-cloudtrail.policy) - Account cannot disable CloudTrail service 
+
+- [prevent-deletion-of-service-resources](prevent-deletion-of-service-resources.policy) - Protect various organizational roles and resources curated for service and governance related purposes. 
+
+## Reference Links
+
+- [Service Control Policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_scp.html) - AWS Organizations - Service Control Policies Documentation
+
+- [Example Control Policies](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-organizations-docs/blob/master/doc_source/orgs_manage_policies_example-scps.md) 
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+{    
+  "Version": "2012-10-17",
+  "Statement": [
+    {
+      "Sid": "DenyAccessToRole",
+      "Effect": "Deny",
+      "Action": [
+        "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
+        "iam:DeleteRole",
+        "iam:DeleteRolePermissionsBoundary",
+        "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
+        "iam:DetachRolePolicy",
+        "iam:PutRolePermissionsBoundary",
+        "iam:PutRolePolicy",
+        "iam:UpdateAssumeRolePolicy",
+        "iam:UpdateRole",
+        "iam:UpdateRoleDescription"
+      ],
+      "Resource": [
+        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/role-to-protect"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "Sid": "DenyAccessToShibbolethIDP",
+      "Effect": "Deny",
+      "Action": [
+        "iam:DeleteSAMLProvider",
+        "iam:UpdateSAMLProvider"
+      ],
+      "Resource": [
+        "arn:aws:iam::*:saml-provider/idp-to-protect"
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
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+{
+    "Version": "2012-10-17",
+    "Statement": [
+        {
+            "Sid": "PreventDisablingOfCloudTrails",
+            "Effect": "Deny",
+            "Action": [
+                "cloudtrail:StopLogging"
+            ],
+            "Resource": [
+                "*"
+            ]
+        }
+    ]
+}
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+{
+	"Version": "2012-10-17",
+	"Statement": [
+		{
+			"Sid": "PreventResourceSharing",
+			"Effect": "Deny",
+			"Action": [
+				"ram:AssociateResourceShare",
+				"ram:CreateResourceShare",
+				"ram:DeleteResourceShare",
+				"ram:EnableSharingWithAwsOrganization"
+			],
+			"Resource": [
+				"*"
+			]
+		}
+	]
+}
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+{
+    "Version": "2012-10-17",
+    "Statement": [
+        {
+            "Sid": "DenyAllOutsideUS",
+            "Effect": "Deny",
+            "NotAction": [
+                "iam:*",
+                "organizations:*",
+                "route53:*",
+                "budgets:*",
+                "waf:*",
+                "cloudfront:*",
+                "globalaccelerator:*",
+                "importexport:*",
+                "support:*",
+                "sts:*"
+            ],
+            "Resource": "*",
+            "Condition": {
+                "StringNotEquals": {
+                    "aws:RequestedRegion": [
+                        "us-east-1",
+                        "us-east-2",
+                        "us-west-1",
+                        "us-west-2"
+                    ]
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}