policies

Creates, updates, deletes or gets a policy resource or lists policies in a region

Overview

Name	policies
Type	Resource
Description	Policies in AWS Organizations enable you to manage different features of the AWS accounts in your organization. You can use policies when all features are enabled in your organization.
Id	aws.organizations.policies

Fields

Name	Datatype	Description
name	string	Name of the Policy
type	string	The type of policy to create. You can specify one of the following values: AISERVICES_OPT_OUT_POLICY, BACKUP_POLICY, SERVICE_CONTROL_POLICY, TAG_POLICY
content	object	The Policy text content. For AWS CloudFormation templates formatted in YAML, you can provide the policy in JSON or YAML format. AWS CloudFormation always converts a YAML policy to JSON format before submitting it.
description	string	Human readable description of the policy
target_ids	array	List of unique identifiers (IDs) of the root, OU, or account that you want to attach the policy to
tags	array	A list of tags that you want to attach to the newly created policy. For each tag in the list, you must specify both a tag key and a value. You can set the value to an empty string, but you can't set it to null.
id	string	Id of the Policy
arn	string	ARN of the Policy
aws_managed	boolean	A boolean value that indicates whether the specified policy is an AWS managed policy. If true, then you can attach the policy to roots, OUs, or accounts, but you cannot edit it.
region	string	AWS region.

Methods

Name	Accessible by	Required Params
create_resource	INSERT	Name, Type, Content, region
delete_resource	DELETE	data__Identifier, region
update_resource	UPDATE	data__Identifier, data__PatchDocument, region
list_resources	SELECT	region
get_resource	SELECT	data__Identifier, region

SELECT examples

Gets all policies in a region.

SELECT
region,
name,
type,
content,
description,
target_ids,
tags,
id,
arn,
aws_managed
FROM aws.organizations.policies
WHERE region = 'us-east-1';

Gets all properties from an individual policy.

SELECT
region,
name,
type,
content,
description,
target_ids,
tags,
id,
arn,
aws_managed
FROM aws.organizations.policies
WHERE region = 'us-east-1' AND data__Identifier = '<Id>';

INSERT example

Use the following StackQL query and manifest file to create a new policy resource, using stack-deploy.

Required Properties

/*+ create */
INSERT INTO aws.organizations.policies (
 Name,
 Type,
 Content,
 region
)
SELECT 
'{{ Name }}',
 '{{ Type }}',
 '{{ Content }}',
'{{ region }}';

All Properties

/*+ create */
INSERT INTO aws.organizations.policies (
 Name,
 Type,
 Content,
 Description,
 TargetIds,
 Tags,
 region
)
SELECT 
 '{{ Name }}',
 '{{ Type }}',
 '{{ Content }}',
 '{{ Description }}',
 '{{ TargetIds }}',
 '{{ Tags }}',
 '{{ region }}';

Manifest

version: 1
name: stack name
description: stack description
providers:
  - aws
globals:
  - name: region
    value: '{{ vars.AWS_REGION }}'
resources:
  - name: policy
    props:
      - name: Name
        value: '{{ Name }}'
      - name: Type
        value: '{{ Type }}'
      - name: Content
        value: {}
      - name: Description
        value: '{{ Description }}'
      - name: TargetIds
        value:
          - '{{ TargetIds[0] }}'
      - name: Tags
        value:
          - Key: '{{ Key }}'
            Value: '{{ Value }}'

DELETE example

/*+ delete */
DELETE FROM aws.organizations.policies
WHERE data__Identifier = '<Id>'
AND region = 'us-east-1';

Permissions

To operate on the policies resource, the following permissions are required:

Create

organizations:CreatePolicy,
organizations:DescribePolicy,
organizations:AttachPolicy,
organizations:ListTagsForResource,
organizations:ListTargetsForPolicy,
organizations:TagResource

Read

organizations:DescribePolicy,
organizations:ListTargetsForPolicy,
organizations:ListTagsForResource

Update

organizations:AttachPolicy,
organizations:DetachPolicy,
organizations:UpdatePolicy,
organizations:ListTagsForResource,
organizations:ListTargetsForPolicy,
organizations:TagResource,
organizations:UntagResource,
organizations:DescribePolicy

Delete

organizations:DetachPolicy,
organizations:DeletePolicy

List

organizations:ListPolicies