aws-ml-opt-out

A Terraform module to opt out of AWS artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) data collection.

Purpose

Unless you explicitly opt out, any data you feed through AWS' AI services gets kept in some form and used for ... well, for whatever Amazon sees fit.

This module makes it really easy to opt out.

I probably won't delete this repo, but at the same time I don't want to cause an outage if it goes missing. So, if you decide to use this module in production, please fork it into an environment you control, i.e. a corporate GHE instance or other similar source control system. The code is MIT-licensed, so you can literally do whatever you want with it.

Requirements

• terraform 0.13 or newer
• Python with boto3 module available

Usage

This module can be used for both creating an organization or modifying an existing organization.

In the modifying use case, we leverage a Python script to invoke the boto3 API call to enable the requested policy types. By default, the interpreter found with env python3 will be used. If your Python is in another path, you can specify it via the python_interpreter variable.

creating an organization

• The additional_enable_policy_types and aws_service_access_principals are passed on to the aws_organizations_organization resource described here

  Note that AISERVICES_OPT_OUT_POLICY is always present and does not need to be set explicitly.

Example:

module "screw_you_skynet" {
  source = "https://github.com/gblues/aws-ml-opt-out"
  additional_enable_policy_types = ["TAG_POLICY"]
}

modifying an existing organization

• set create_organization to false
• if you populate additional_enabled_policy_types then that will be honored
• aws_service_access_principcals is ignored

Example:

module "alexa_opt_out_of_corporate_espionage" {
  source = "https://github.com/gblues/aws-ml-opt-out"
  create_organization = false
  additional_enable_policy_types = ["BACKUP_POLICY"]
}

Troubleshooting

• If you set create_organization to false and get an error that mentions "NO-ORGANIZATION-FOUND", it means that Terraform couldn't find your organization, and you probably want to set create_organization to true

• An error that "env" cannot be executed means that you need to specify the path to your Python interpreter in the python_interpreter variable. This behavior is expected on Windows, but could occur on Linux/UNIX too if env is not in your PATH or if env can't find python3.