Scaling security teams without hiring more personnel is crucial for companies adopting cloud technology due to a significant gap between job openings and qualified candidates in the cybersecurity industry. The pandemic has accelerated the migration of applications to the cloud, increasing the complexity of security environments. To address this challenge, implementing security process automation based on policy as code can help organizations meet their growing needs without scaling headcount. This approach enables developers to own the security of their cloud environment, sharing responsibility with security teams who serve as domain experts, empowering them to empower developers with tooling based on right policies to check security pre-deployment. Policy as code allows security teams to express security and compliance rules in a programming language that an application can use to check the correctness of configurations, automating manual intervention and ensuring consistency across the software development life cycle. By adopting policy as code, companies can harden their cloud security posture, demonstrate compliance with applicable standards, laws, and regulations, and support multiple business units without slowing them down.