What fails first, and how badly?
Use this hub for IAM boundaries, recovery posture, failure isolation, and the controls that determine whether incidents stay small.
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Security and Reliability
IAM, failure isolation, recovery planning, defensive controls, and reliability work that survives the first incident.
Questions this hub should help answer
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Where are the hidden assumptions?
These articles are most useful when the system already exists and you need to pressure-test what happens when one dependency, role, region, or team assumption fails.
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AWS CDK Security as Code: VPC, IAM, KMS, WAF and Config in One Stack
Most AWS accounts get hardened once by someone who no longer works there. This post walks through a CDK TypeScript stack that encodes VPC isolation, KMS key policies, IAM least-privilege, AWS Config rules, WAF, and CloudTrail into version-controlled, PR-reviewable infrastructure — so your security p
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These pieces stay inside the same operating surface and are better for depth once you already have the context from the spotlight read.
AWS CDK KMS Encryption with IAM Roles: One Stack for EC2, S3, and RDS
Your IAM permissions are a wiki page nobody trusts. This post walks through a CDK TypeScript stack that encodes KMS encryption, IAM roles, and RDS storage security as versioned, reviewable code - and covers the operational traps most tutorials skip entirely.
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