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Overview In the fast-paced AWS environment, resources are often provisioned faster than they are decommissioned. This rapid development cycle frequently leaves behind idle or “zombie” assets—provisioned resources that consume budget but no longer serve a business purpose. One of the most common examples is the idle Amazon OpenSearch domain. These domains, often left over from […]

Overview As organizations adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for critical workloads, the security of sensitive data within those clusters becomes paramount. Kubernetes Secrets are essential for managing credentials like API keys, database passwords, and OAuth tokens. However, the default configuration for storing these secrets presents a significant security gap. By default, Kubernetes stores secrets […]

Overview In the AWS shared responsibility model, securing the cloud infrastructure’s management plane is a critical customer duty. For organizations using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), this means maintaining a clear audit trail of all administrative actions performed on the EKS service itself. A foundational guardrail for achieving this is enabling AWS CloudTrail logging for […]

Overview Amazon OpenSearch Service is a powerful tool for log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and search. However, its power comes with a critical security responsibility. One of the most common and dangerous misconfigurations in AWS is unrestricted access to an OpenSearch cluster, which typically occurs when network security rules allow public internet traffic to its […]

Overview As organizations adopt Generative AI using services like Amazon Bedrock, the security of the model customization process becomes a critical governance concern. By default, the compute resources that AWS provisions to run fine-tuning or pre-training jobs may communicate with data sources like Amazon S3 over public service endpoints. While this traffic is encrypted, it […]