AWS AI opt-out Organization Policy

• AWS AI opt-out Organization Policy
  • Description
  • Requirements
  • Usage
  • Sources

Description

Unless explicitly opted out, data feed through AWS's AI services is used to train AWS ML models. This module disables all available AI/ML data collection. In response to How to Stop Feeding AWS’s AI With Your Data BY COREY QUINN.

Requirements

• AWS permissions to modify an AWS Organization accounts
• AWS providers ~ 5
• Bash ~ 5 (or similar Linux shell)
• Terraform ~ 1.6 || OpenToFu ~ 1.6

... and because the AWS provider is missing the ability to interact with organizational policy enablement as of version 5.1:

• AWS CLI ~ 2
• jq ~ 1.6

Usage

• Add a reference to the module in your project

module "org_ai_opt_out" {
  source  = "davidjeddy/org-ai-opt-out/aws"
  version = "0.1.0"
}

Export AWS_REGION and AWS_PROFILE as ENV VARs.

export AWS_REGION="us-east-1"
export AWS_PROFILE="default"

• Execute plan to review the changes
• Execute apply to deploy the resources

...
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 1s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 1s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 4s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 5s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 6s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 7s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 7s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]
module.org_ai_opt_out.aws_organizations_policy_attachment.this["REDACTED"]: Creation complete after 8s [id=REDACTED:p-REDACTED]

Apply complete! Resources: 11 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

org_ai_opt_out = {
  "account_ids" = tolist([
    ...
  ])
  "policy" = {
    "arn" = "arn:aws:organizations::REDACTED:policy/o-REDACTED/aiservices_opt_out_policy/p-REDACTED"
    "content" = "{\"services\":{\"default\":{\"opt_out_policy\":{\"@@assign\":\"optOut\"}}}}"
    "description" = "Opt-out of Amazon AI/ML service/s for all accounts accessible by the root account."
    "id" = "p-REDACTED"
    "name" = "OptOutOfAllAIServicesPolicy"
    "skip_destroy" = tobool(null)
    "tags" = tomap(null) /* of string */
    "tags_all" = tomap({
      ...
    })
    "type" = "AISERVICES_OPT_OUT_POLICY"
  }
}

Sources

• https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/ai-services/
• https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources/provisioners/local-exec
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_ai-opt-out_syntax.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_ai-opt-out.html
• https://github.com/gblues/aws-ml-opt-out/tree/master
• https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/organizations_policy
• https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/organizations/v2/home/policies
• https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/How-to-Stop-Feeding-AWSs-AI-With-Your-Data/