Policies are essential for maintaining secure, cost-effective, and compliant infrastructure. But writing them from scratch takes time, time most teams would rather spend on building and shipping.

The intent is there. Platform teams want to enforce standards. But figuring out what to enforce, writing the logic, validating parameters, and wiring it all into workflows adds friction. Even experienced teams find themselves blocked not by policy frameworks, but by the overhead of getting started.

That’s why we’re introducing ready-to-use policies in env zero: a growing library of guardrails you can apply in seconds.

Apply policies in seconds

With this release, you no longer need to start from scratch. Ready-to-use policies give you a head start with common challenges across security, cost, and compliance.

Whether you're preventing public S3 buckets, restricting use of expensive EC2 instance types, requiring resource limits on Kubernetes containers, or blocking wildcard actions in IAM policies—these policies can be applied in just a few clicks, directly from the env zero UI.

You can filter policies by category (like security, IAM, or cost) and by cloud provider to quickly find what fits your stack.

Each policy is clearly explained, configurable where needed, and can be applied at the organization, project, or environment level.

No code. No extra tooling. Just built-in enforcement, right where you need it.

Designed for real-world use

These aren’t templates or examples. Every policy is built to solve a real problem we’ve seen across teams using infrastructure-as-code at scale.

They cover scenarios that are commonly missed, like overly permissive IAM policies, unencrypted storage, or forgotten tagging—and give you a fast path to enforcement without needing to build the logic yourself.

Behind the scenes, policies are enforced using the same engine that powers env zero’s custom approval workflows.

That means you can combine ready-to-use policies with your own, or use them as a starting point before adding more complexity later on.

As your needs grow, enforcement scales with you.

Try it now

Ready-to-use policies are available today in your env zero account. Go to the Policies tab to start browsing, filtering, and applying the ones that match your environment and goals.

You can apply a single policy across multiple environments, or tailor specific guardrails by project. Either way, you're adding governance without adding overhead.

Looking Ahead

We’ll continue expanding policy coverage across security, cost, and compliance, with richer filtering and customization to fit your stack.

Longer term, our vision is to go beyond static libraries with AI-powered recommendations and policy generation — giving you exactly the guardrails you need, when you need them.