--- title: "Cloud Control API (CC API)" weight: 10 --- [Cloud Control API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudcontrolapi/latest/userguide/what-is-cloudcontrolapi.html) standardizes AWS application programming interfaces (APIs). This will allow for a consistent schema in which to validate our deployed AWS resources. In this section we will use the cfn-guard rules that we created to validate policies on AWS resources that have been deployed.