Adventures in DevOps

AWS and IAM with Stephen Kuenzli - DevOps 106

Mar 3, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Hardest Part is IAM Management

  • Stephen Kuenzli shares his experience that the hardest part when migrating apps to the cloud is managing IAM correctly.
  • He highlights common problems like environment differences and regulation constraints affecting data use in development.
ADVICE

Organize AWS Accounts Smartly

  • Organize AWS accounts by business unit or application to separate development, staging, and production.
  • Provision users and roles per environment with appropriate permissions for security and operational needs.
INSIGHT

Resource Boundaries Simplify IAM

  • Simplifying IAM by applying resource boundaries at the data level greatly reduces security complexity.
  • Encapsulating access controls into reusable libraries empowers app teams to manage permissions easily.
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