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How We Automated 80+ Hours of AWS Security Hardening into a Single Terraform Module
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How We Automated 80+ Hours of AWS Security Hardening into a Single Terraform Module

DEV Community: terraform·Alex Vancer·4 days ago
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If you’ve ever prepared an AWS infrastructure for a SOC 2 Type II or GDPR compliance audit, you know the drill.

What starts as a clean cloud architecture quickly devolves into 80+ hours of tedious manual hardening: stitching together KMS keys, locking down IAM boundary policies, configuring S3 block public access, routing CloudTrail log delivery, and ensuring zero 0.0.0.0/0 ingress rules in your VPC security groups.

And the worst part? Manual hardening creates configuration drift. Two months after the audit, someone opens a temporary SSH port or forgets to encrypt an EBS volume, and your compliance posture crumbles.

We got tired of re-inventing the same security wheel across every deployment. So we engineered a battle-tested approach to collapse those 80+ manual hours into a single, automated, production-ready IaC?…

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