# Management policies in Amazon Organizations
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Management policies enable you to centrally configure and manage Amazon Web Services services and their features. How those policies affect the OUs and accounts that inherit them depends on the type of management policy you apply in Amazon Organizations. Review the topics in this section to understand relevant terms and concepts about management policies.

**Topics**
+ [Prerequisites and permissions](orgs_manage_policies_prereqs.md)
+ [Understanding policy inheritance](orgs_manage_policies_inheritance_mgmt.md)
+ [Viewing effective policies](orgs_manage_policies_effective.md)
+ [Invalid policy alerts](invalid-policy-alerts.md)
+ [Declarative policies](orgs_manage_policies_declarative.md)
+ [Backup policies](orgs_manage_policies_backup.md)
+ [Tag policies](orgs_manage_policies_tag-policies.md)
+ [Chat applications policies](orgs_manage_policies_chatbot.md)
+ [AI services opt-out policies](orgs_manage_policies_ai-opt-out.md)
+ [Security Hub policies](orgs_manage_policies_security_hub.md)
+ [Amazon Bedrock policies](orgs_manage_policies_bedrock.md)
+ [Amazon Inspector policies](orgs_manage_policies_inspector.md)
+ [Upgrade rollout policies](orgs_manage_policies_upgrade_rollout.md)
+ [Amazon S3 policies](orgs_manage_policies_s3.md)
+ [Amazon Shield Network Security Director policies](orgs_manage_policies_network_security_director.md)