US Patent 9313230 Policy approval layer

A customer of a policy management service may use an interface with a configuration and management service to interact with policies that may be applicable to the customer's one or more resources. The customer may create and/or modify the policies and the configuration and management service may notify one or more other entities of the created and/or modified policies. The one or more other entities may be operated by user authorized to approve the created and/or modified policies. Interactions with the configuration and management service may be the same as the interactions with the policy management service.