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SOA-C02 · Question #734

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company is implementing a CostCenter tag for business units to track costs and prevent noncompliant actions. The company needs to…

The correct answer is A. Create a service control policy (SCP) for the CostCenter tag in Organizations. Define the specified. An SCP can require ec2:RunInstances requests to include CostCenter with allowed values by using aws:RequestTag/CostCenter and aws:TagKeys conditions. Attached at the OU level, it blocks noncompliant launches across all accounts with minimal admin effort.

Submitted by fatema_kw· Mar 30, 2026Security and Compliance

Question

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company is implementing a CostCenter tag for business units to track costs and prevent noncompliant actions. The company needs to prevent users from launching Amazon EC2 instances with a CostCenter tag unless the tag has specified values. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST administrative effort?

Options

  • ACreate a service control policy (SCP) for the CostCenter tag in Organizations. Define the specified
  • BConfigure inventory collection for the EC2 instances in AWS Systems Manager Inventory. Attach
  • CCreate an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for each of the company's business units. Include a user
  • DCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function when a user launches

How the community answered

(41 responses)
  • A
    78% (32)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    15% (6)
  • D
    5% (2)

Explanation

An SCP can require ec2:RunInstances requests to include CostCenter with allowed values by using aws:RequestTag/CostCenter and aws:TagKeys conditions. Attached at the OU level, it blocks noncompliant launches across all accounts with minimal admin effort.

Topics

#Service Control Policy#tag enforcement#cost allocation tags#EC2 launch conditions

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