ARCO Governance documentation

Practical setup and operating guidance for AWS compliance readiness, reports, evidence tasks, and auditor packet exports.

Start here

Best path for launch users

Connect AWS with a cross-account role.

Run the first posture scan.

Review findings and framework readiness.

Export reports when the plan allows.

AWS onboarding

Connect AWS securely to ARCO Governance using CloudFormation, Terraform, or manual IAM role setup with read-only access and an External ID.

Understand ARCO Governance readiness views, AWS report types, evidence exports, auditor packets, certification boundaries, and plan limits.

See how ARCO Governance scans AWS posture, maps findings to SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS controls, and presents evidence and readiness states.

Compare ARCO Governance Starter, Growth, and Scale plans, including AWS account limits, scan frequency, report exports, evidence ZIPs, and support.

Manage audit evidence tasks, owners, approvals, attachments, framework requirements, and readiness visibility alongside automated AWS posture checks.

Prepare SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS auditor packets with readiness reports, requirement summaries, export manifests, metadata, and evidence files.

These pages are designed to help teams connect AWS, understand readiness, and prepare evidence without waiting for a full public docs center.

AWS role setup

External ID validation

Readiness reports

Evidence workflows

Auditor packets

Plan limits