Background AWS comes with a ton of freedom and opportunities to build cool stuff. But we all know, with great freedom comes great responsibility. AWS offers a wide array of flexibility in terms of what security configuarations one can set up. …

In the previous two segments, I shared some best practices on how to design and build performant REST APIs. An API that is well-designed and built for performance behaves and functions well in response to evolving customer and business requirements. However, security must also be a key forerunner when building…

Background In my previous post, I shared some security best practices cloud engineers can adhere to when developing applications on AWS. The purpose of this post is to go into depth explaining the main AWS service behind all of those measures that makes security possible: Amazon Identity & Access Management (IAM). IAM at a High-Level …