Governing and securing AWS PrivateLink service access at scale in multi-account environments

This article discusses how to govern and secure AWS PrivateLink service access in multi-account environments at scale.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Challenges in managing PrivateLink connections across multiple accounts and VPCs as environments scale
• Using preventative controls like Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control which PrivateLink services can be accessed
• Using detective controls like CloudTrail, EventBridge, AWS Config, and Lambda to detect policy violations
• A solution architecture with step-by-step instructions to deploy and test the preventative and detective controls
• Considerations and cleanup steps to remove the deployed resources