Amazon Verified Permissions now supports policy store deletion protection

You can now activate deletion protection for your Amazon Verified Permissions policy stores. When you configure a policy store with deletion protection, the policy store cannot be deleted by any user. This provides your applications resiliency as you can ensure that production policy stores are not accidentally deleted during deployments. Deletion protection is active by default for new policy stores created through the AWS Console. You can activate or deactivate deletion protection for an policy store in the AWS Console, the AWS Command Line Interface, and API. Deletion protection prevents you from requesting the deletion of a policy store unless you first explicitly deactivate deletion protection.

Amazon Verified Permissions is a scalable permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. Using Cedar, an expressive and analyzable open-source policy language, developers and admins can define policy-based access controls using roles and attributes for more granular, context-aware access control. For example, an HR application might call Amazon Verified Permissions to determine if Alice is permitted access to Bob’s performance evaluation, given that she is in the HR Managers group.

Read more in the Deletion Protection section of the Amazon Verified Permissions user guide. This feature is available in all regions where Verified permissions is available. For more information visit the product page.