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Again, the policies you add will act as a filter at each level of your organizational structure. With this in mind, it might be a good time to point out that testing your policies on a single account before applying them organization-wide will save you a lot of heartache. Making sweeping changes to an SCP living at the top of your organization may create an unforeseen situation at the AWS account level at the bottom of the chain. A local admin in an AWS account is not able to override SCPs.

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