Policy as Code using AWS Config + Service Control Policies (SCPs) + OPA
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Enforce. Automate. Audit.
Build cloud governance that actually holds.
Cloud infrastructure moves fast — and manual policy enforcement simply cannot keep up. When guardrails live only in runbooks and human judgment, misconfigurations slip through, compliance drifts, and security incidents follow. Policy as Code changes that equation entirely. By expressing governance rules as version-controlled, testable, automated code, teams can enforce security posture continuously. Join us as we explore how to operationalize cloud governance using AWS Config for resource compliance, Service Control Policies (SCPs) for hard organizational guardrails, and Open Policy Agent (OPA) for flexible, engine-agnostic policy logic. Whether you're wrangling a multi-account AWS environment or just starting to think seriously about compliance automation, this session gives you a practical, production-grade blueprint for policy enforcement that scales. 🛡️☁️
📅 Date: June 13th, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM WAT
📍 Location: Virtual
Meet Our Speakers
🎤 Speaker: Diogo Aniekwe – AWS Community Builder
🎤 Moderator: Chukwuemeka Aladimma – Backend Engineer
✅ This session will cover:
🗂️ Policy as Code Fundamentals — Understand why codifying governance beats manual enforcement — with version control, peer review, automated testing, and auditability baked in from the start.
🔍 AWS Config for Continuous Compliance — Learn how to use AWS Config rules and conformance packs to continuously evaluate resource configurations, detect drift, and trigger automated remediation across accounts.
🏛️ Service Control Policies (SCPs) for Hard Guardrails — Explore how to design and attach SCPs in AWS Organizations to enforce non-negotiable boundaries — preventing actions that bypass security controls regardless of individual account permissions.
🧠 Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Flexible Policy Logic — Discover how OPA and Rego provide a unified, engine-agnostic policy layer — enabling consistent enforcement across Terraform, Kubernetes, API gateways, and CI/CD pipelines.
⚙️ Integrating Policy Checks into CI/CD — See how to shift compliance left — running OPA evaluations and Config checks at the pull-request stage so violations are caught before infrastructure ever reaches production.