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SCS-C02 Management and Security Governance Practice Question
An organization uses AWS Organizations and wants to restrict the use of specific EC2 instance types across all member accounts. Which policy type should be used to enforce this restriction?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Service control policy (SCP)
Service control policies (SCPs) are used in AWS Organizations to centrally control permissions for all accounts in the organization. SCPs allow you to restrict the maximum permissions for member accounts, including denying specific EC2 instance types. Resource-based policies are attached to resources, not accounts, and cannot enforce account-wide restrictions. IAM policies are applied to users/roles but can be overridden by administrators unless bounded by SCPs. CloudFormation policies are for stack resources and do not apply across accounts.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Resource-based policy
Why it's wrong here
Resource-based policies are per-resource.
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IAM policy
Why it's wrong here
IAM policies are not enforced across accounts.
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Service control policy (SCP)
Why this is correct
SCPs can be attached to OUs to restrict services across accounts.
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AWS CloudFormation policy
Why it's wrong here
CloudFormation is for infrastructure as code, not policy enforcement.
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Last reviewed: Jun 20, 2026
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