Amazed by AWS IAM🫨
I was working on Access control but when I see the surprising control of the AWS IAM, I got stuck! It was really super advanced.
You can manage access at an individual level or group users into roles ...
Addressing The Growing Challenge of Generic Secrets: Beyond GitHub's Push Protection
The landscape of credential security has shifted dramatically in recent years, with a notable transformation in both the volume and nature of secrets embedded in code. According to GitGuardian's 2025...
Accessing Amazon EKS from a Jumphost using Access Entries
🔐 How to Access Amazon EKS from a Jumphost (Modern Access Entries Method)
Amazon EKS Access Entries let you assign Kubernetes API permissions to IAM identities without modifying the legacy...
Introducing AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server
What is a MCP server?
LLMs are like genies trapped in a bottle: their knowledge is limited by their training data, specifically their knowledge cutoff date, and they can't take actions.Severa...
AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server: how up-to-date, scoped, reference data helps deliver better answers.
In my previous post, I introduced AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server, a Model Context Protocol server exposing AWS Authorization Reference data to LLMs. To illustrate how up-to-date, scoped,...
Top 5 Open Source Identity and Access Management (IAM) providers 2025
What is an IAM provider?
An Identity and Access Management (IAM) provider is a system that ensures secure, controlled access to resources. It combines four pillars:
Authentication: Verifying...
AWS Cloud Security: Keeping Your Data Safe
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular cloud provider that allows businesses to store data and run applications online. While AWS provides security for its infrastructure, customers must also take ste...
Granting cross-account access in AWS
In a modern enterprise architecture, cloud resources are typically managed by individual teams and organized across multiple AWS accounts. However, certain resources are deliberately designated as sha...
Streamlining IAM Permission Discovery with CloudFormation Resource Schemas
The Challenge of Permission Discovery
CloudFormation Resource Schemas: A Complementary Approach
Practical Example: Discovering IAM Permissions for Amazon S3 Bucket
Step 1: Locate the Resource Sche...
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
In simple terms, IAM is a fundamental web service within AWS that allows you to securely control access to your AWS services and resources. It acts like the central security system for your entire AWS...