Creating an Organization Conformance Package

Scenario

If you are an organization administrator or a delegated administrator of Config, you can add organization conformance packages and deploy these packages to all member accounts in your organization.

Each member can view organization packages that are deployed to their accounts in the conformance package list. If you create an organization conformance package using an account, you can only use the same account to delete the package. Members can only initiate resource evaluation and view evaluation results.

After an organization conformance package is created, your resources are evaluated against the rules in the package by default. Evaluations will continue to be initiated each time the package is triggered. You can also trigger evaluation against a single rule in the rule list page.

Restrictions and Limitations

Up to 50 conformance packages (including organization conformance packages) and 500 rules can be created in an account.
To create or update an organization conformance package, you need to enable the resource recorder. For details, see Configuring the Resource Recorder.
The Organization Conformance Package tab is inaccessible for non-organization members on Config console.

Procedure

Sign in to the Config console as an organization administrator or an agency administrator of Config.
Click in the upper left corner. Under Management & Governance, click Config.
On the left navigation pane, choose Conformance Package.
Select the Organization Conformance Package tab and click Create Organization Conformance Package.

Figure 1 Creating an organization conformance package
On the Select Template page, select a sample template, upload a local template, or enter an OBS template URL, and click Next.
- Sample template: templates provided by Config. You can select a sample template from the dropdown list.
  For details about the rules contained in each sample template, see conformance package sample template.
- Local template: templates uploaded locally. You can create a custom template and upload the template.
  Both the template file and content formats must be JSON. That is, the file name extension must be .tf.json. For details, see custom conformance packages.
- OBS bucket: URLs of the OBS buckets where custom conformance package templates are stored. If your local template file exceeds 50 KB, upload it to an OBS bucket and enter the OBS URL when you need to select a package template.
  
  The OBS URL specifies the location of an object stored in an OBS bucket. To obtain an OBS URL on the OBS console, you need to locate the object and choose More > Copy Object URL in the Operation column on the Objects page.
Figure 2 Selecting a conformance package template

Configure detailed information and click Next.

Figure 3 Detailed information

**Table 1** Detailed information
Parameter	Description
Name	The name of an organization conformance package. An organization conformance package name is customized and must be unique. The name can contain letters, numbers, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) and cannot exceed 64 characters.
Parameters	Parameters of an organization conformance package are consistent with rules in the package. For details, see Built-in Policies.
Destination	Specifies where an organization conformance package will be deployed. Organization indicates that a conformance package will be deployed to all members in a specified organization. Current Account indicates that a conformance package will be deployed to the current account. When creating an organization conformance package, select Organization.
Excluded Account	Member accounts that an organization conformance package will not be deployed to. This parameter is only required when Destination is set to Organization.

On the confirm information page, confirm configuration and click OK.

Figure 4 Confirming configurations

After an organization conformance package is created or updated, an evaluation will be automatically triggered.