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AWS organizations: Add note about AWS sign-up experience for regulated workloads

Service: organizations · 2026-08-19 · Documentation medium

File: organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_security_compliance-validation.md · Type: compliance

Summary

Added guidance clarifying that the new AWS sign-up experience isn't suitable for regulated workloads, with links to advanced options.

Security assessment

Documents compliance considerations for regulated workloads, helping users avoid misconfigurations.

Evidence

+Our new AWS sign-up experience is not designed for regulated workloads. If you're using our new AWS sign-up experience, but you want to use AWS for regulated workloads, you can [sign up for AWS (advanced)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html) or [activate advanced features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/activate-advanced-features.html) for your AWS environment.

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diff --git a/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_security_compliance-validation.md b/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_security_compliance-validation.md
index e862271cf..ddc91259c 100644
--- a//organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_security_compliance-validation.md
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@@ -8,0 +9,2 @@
+Our new AWS sign-up experience is not designed for regulated workloads. If you're using our new AWS sign-up experience, but you want to use AWS for regulated workloads, you can [sign up for AWS (advanced)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html) or [activate advanced features](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/activate-advanced-features.html) for your AWS environment.
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