We’ve all heard the horror stories: a developer pushes a quick Terraform module on Friday afternoon, and wakes up Monday to a $14,000 AWS bill because bots turned their staging environment into a Monero mining cluster.
The terrifying part about AWS security isn't sophisticated zero-day exploits—it’s default misconfigurations.
Before you run terraform apply today, audit your code against these 4 bite-sized security fixes:
1. Kill Wildcard (*) IAM Permissions
When you hit a 403 Access Denied error, it’s tempting to test with "Action": "", "Resource": "". If committed, a single app vulnerability lets attackers wipe your AWS account.
