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A global data perimeter turns "who has access to what" from a per-account promise into an org-wide guarantee. This article walks through how I designed and rolled one out across a large multi-account AWS estate in a regulated banking environment — the architecture, the audit-mode-first rollout, and the exceptions that actually happened.

AWS has four distinct mechanisms to restrict permissions — and most engineers confuse them. This article breaks down SCPs, RCPs, Permission Boundaries and Session Policies: what each one limits, where it sits in the evaluation engine, and when to use which.