diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/report.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/report.ts
index 6ea77f759c6f0..20cfcfb41cbb5 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/report.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/report.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,116 @@
 /**
  * Violation produced by the validation plugin.
  */
+export interface PolicyViolation {
+  /**
+   * The name of the rule.
+   */
+  readonly ruleName: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The description of the violation.
+   */
+  readonly description: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The resources violating this rule.
+   */
+  readonly violatingResources: PolicyViolatingResource[];
+
+  /**
+   * How to fix the violation.
+   *
+   * @default - no fix is provided
+   */
+  readonly fix?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The severity of the violation, only used for reporting purposes.
+   * This is useful for helping the user discriminate between warnings,
+   * errors, information, etc.
+   *
+   * @default - no severity
+   */
+  readonly severity?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * Additional metadata to include with the rule results.
+   * This can be used to provide additional information that is
+   * plugin specific. The data provided here will be rendered as is.
+   *
+   * @default - no rule metadata
+   */
+  readonly ruleMetadata?: { readonly [key: string]: string };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resource violating a specific rule.
+ */
+export interface PolicyViolatingResource {
+  /**
+   * The logical ID of the resource in the CloudFormation template.
+   */
+  readonly resourceLogicalId: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The locations in the CloudFormation template that pose the violations.
+   */
+  readonly locations: string[];
+
+  /**
+   * The path to the CloudFormation template that contains this resource
+   */
+  readonly templatePath: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The final status of the validation report
+ */
+export enum PolicyValidationReportStatus {
+  /**
+   * No violations were found
+   */
+  SUCCESS = 'success',
+
+  /**
+   * At least one violation was found
+   */
+  FAILURE = 'failure',
+}
+
+/**
+ * The report emitted by the plugin after evaluation.
+ */
+export interface PolicyValidationPluginReport {
+  /**
+   * List of violations in the report.
+   */
+  readonly violations: PolicyViolation[];
+
+  /**
+   * Whether or not the report was successful.
+   */
+  readonly success: boolean;
+
+  /**
+   * The version of the plugin that created the report.
+   * @default - no version
+   */
+  readonly pluginVersion?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * Arbitrary information about the report.
+   *
+   * @default - no metadata
+   */
+  readonly metadata?: { readonly [key: string]: string };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Violation produced by the validation plugin.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use `PolicyViolation` instead.
+ */
 export interface PolicyViolationBeta1 {
   /**
    * The name of the rule.
@@ -45,6 +155,8 @@ export interface PolicyViolationBeta1 {
 
 /**
  * Resource violating a specific rule.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use `PolicyViolatingResource` instead.
  */
 export interface PolicyViolatingResourceBeta1 {
   /**
@@ -65,6 +177,8 @@ export interface PolicyViolatingResourceBeta1 {
 
 /**
  * The final status of the validation report
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use `PolicyValidationReportStatus` instead.
  */
 export enum PolicyValidationReportStatusBeta1 {
   /**
@@ -80,6 +194,8 @@ export enum PolicyValidationReportStatusBeta1 {
 
 /**
  * The report emitted by the plugin after evaluation.
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use `PolicyValidationPluginReport` instead.
  */
 export interface PolicyValidationPluginReportBeta1 {
   /**
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/validation.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/validation.ts
index c9a8edeb8b2e8..64b01e1dd070d 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/validation.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/lib/validation/validation.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { PolicyValidationPluginReportBeta1 } from './report';
+import type { PolicyValidationPluginReport, PolicyValidationPluginReportBeta1 } from './report';
 
 /**
  * Represents a validation plugin that will be executed during synthesis
@@ -29,6 +29,54 @@ import type { PolicyValidationPluginReportBeta1 } from './report';
  *   }
  * }
  */
+export interface IPolicyValidationPlugin {
+  /**
+   * The name of the plugin that will be displayed in the validation
+   * report
+   */
+  readonly name: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The version of the plugin, following the Semantic Versioning specification (see
+   * https://semver.org/). This version is used for analytics purposes, to
+   * measure the usage of different plugins and different versions. The value of
+   * this property should be kept in sync with the actual version of the
+   * software package. If the version is not provided or is not a valid semantic
+   * version, it will be reported as `0.0.0`.
+   */
+  readonly version?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The list of rule IDs that the plugin will evaluate. Used for analytics
+   * purposes.
+   *
+   * @default - No rule is reported
+   */
+  readonly ruleIds?: string[];
+
+  /**
+   * The method that will be called by the CDK framework to perform
+   * validations. This is where the plugin will evaluate the CloudFormation
+   * templates for compliance and report and violations
+   */
+  validate(context: IPolicyValidationContext): PolicyValidationPluginReport;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Context available to the validation plugin
+ */
+export interface IPolicyValidationContext {
+  /**
+   * The absolute path of all templates to be processed
+   */
+  readonly templatePaths: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Represents a validation plugin that will be executed during synthesis
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use `IPolicyValidationPlugin` instead.
+ */
 export interface IPolicyValidationPluginBeta1 {
   /**
    * The name of the plugin that will be displayed in the validation
@@ -64,6 +112,8 @@ export interface IPolicyValidationPluginBeta1 {
 
 /**
  * Context available to the validation plugin
+ *
+ * @deprecated Use `IPolicyValidationContext` instead.
  */
 export interface IPolicyValidationContextBeta1 {
   /**
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/validation.test.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/validation.test.ts
index c2312c2994596..690aee815f166 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/validation.test.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/core/test/validation/validation.test.ts
@@ -812,6 +812,12 @@ Policy Validation Report Summary
     const consoleReport = consoleErrorMock.mock.calls[1][0];
     expect(consoleReport).toContain('Validation Report');
   });
+
+  test('a plugin implementing Beta1 is assignable to IPolicyValidationPlugin', () => {
+    const beta1Plugin: core.IPolicyValidationPluginBeta1 = new FakePlugin('beta1-plugin', []);
+    const plugin: core.IPolicyValidationPlugin = beta1Plugin;
+    expect(plugin.name).toEqual('beta1-plugin');
+  });
 });
 
 class FakePlugin implements core.IPolicyValidationPluginBeta1 {