Enabling or Disabling the Tag Policy Type

Scenarios

To standardize resource tagging across your organization, you need to enable the tag policy type. Once this policy type is active, you can create tag policies and attach them to the root OU, subordinate OUs, and accounts.

If you decide to stop using these features, you can disable the tag policy type. This action automatically detaches all tag policies from every OU and account, though the SCPs themselves are not deleted.

The organization's management account is required to enable or disable the tag policy type. This action cannot be performed by a delegated administrator.

Enabling the Tag Policy Type

Before you can create and attach tag policies to the OUs and accounts in your organization, you must enable the tag policy type. The only way to enable the tag policy type is by using the organization's management account.

1. Log in to the Organizations console as an organization administrator or using the management account.
2. On the Policies page, click Enable in the Operation column of tag policies.
   Figure 1 Enabling the tag policy type
   

3. In the displayed dialog box, select the check box and click OK.

4. Return to the Policies page. If the status of tag policies shows Enabled, tag policies were enabled successfully.

   

Disabling the Tag Policy Type

If you no longer want to use tag policies in your organization, you can disable the tag policy type only from the organization's management account.

• After the tag policy type is disabled in an organization, all tag policies are automatically detached from all OUs and accounts in the organization. However, the policies are not deleted.
• If you disable the tag policy type, attachments of tag policies to entities will be lost. If you later re-enable the tag policy type, you must use the management account to re-attach tag policies to the entities.

1. Log in to the Organizations console as an organization administrator or using the management account.
2. On the Policies page, click Disable in the Operation column of tag policies.
   Figure 2 Disabling the tag policy type
   

3. In the displayed dialog box, click OK. If the status of tag policies shows Disabled, tag policies were disabled successfully.