Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When an IAM user logs in to the AWS Management Console, a 12-digit account ID is required to ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Keeping your Amazon account secure is a major concern for every AWS user and admin. Here are the ...

Amazon has long recommended that you use your AWS root account as seldom as possible, using instead an IAM account. The main reason for this recommendation is of course, that the root account is ...

The Amazon Web Services identity and access management (IAM) mechanism is complex, and not fully understanding its particularities often leads to misconfigurations and exposed cloud assets.

A vulnerability related to Amazon Web Service's traffic-routing service known as Application Load Balancer could have been exploited by an attacker to bypass access controls and compromise web ...

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is urging its open-source Cloud Development Kit (CDK) users to apply fixes now available for a flaw that, under certain circumstances, can allow complete account takeover.

An open source developer is claiming AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, wiping all the data. He believes this was due to a botched test of a script designed to prune dormant accounts.… Abdelkader ...

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