Security & Compliance

WAF beyond “enable managed rules”: COUNT→BLOCK, rate limits, Bot Control cost traps, GraphQL depth. July 2026 API protection checklist.

HIPAA on AWS build guide: BAA via Artifact, eligible services, KMS/VPC/RDS/S3 patterns. July 2026 engineering checklist.

AWS Security Hub aggregates security findings from 200+ sources and, as of Jul 14 2026, includes AI inventory for org-wide AI assets. This guide covers setup, compliance standards, AI inventory, automated remediation, and a compliance dashboard without hiring a SOC team.

Billing attacks: CloudFront request floods, Lambda bombs, SQS/SNS OTP spam. July 2026 — WAF ceilings, reserved concurrency, Budgets Actions, FinOps backstops.

A practical architecture guide for PCI DSS compliance on AWS — CDE scoping, the 12 requirements mapped to AWS services, network design, encryption, logging, and audit readiness for payment-processing applications.

Manual security triage cannot keep up with cloud-scale threats. Here is how to wire GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection, Security Hub, EventBridge, and Lambda into a self-healing AWS security architecture.

Least privilege is a slogan. Working IAM at production scale is a different problem. Roles vs users, permission boundaries, SCPs, identity federation, and the access-control patterns that keep teams fast without leaving keys lying around.

Secrets Manager rotates and costs $0.40 per secret per month. Parameter Store doesn't rotate and is mostly free. Pricing, rotation, encryption, cross-account access, and the decision criteria for picking each — including the hybrid pattern most production accounts end up at.

AWS WAF blocks attacks. It also blocks legitimate users when the rules are wrong — and that's a worse incident. Managed rule groups, custom rules, rate limiting, bot control, and the layered defense strategy that protects without flooding your support queue.

S3 misconfigurations are still the leading cause of headline data breaches. Bucket policies, encryption, access logging, Block Public Access, and the practices that keep "developer left the bucket public" from being your incident.

How to deploy, tune, and operationalize Amazon GuardDuty for production threat detection — covering finding types, multi-account setup, automated response, and reducing false positives.

An audit-prep checklist for Compliance Leads, Security Officers, and CISOs — BAA execution, documented Security Risk Assessments, workforce training, audit cadence, and the evidence packages OCR investigators expect when they show up.