Security as a developer
Explore how to secure AWS environments as a developer by applying additive permission strategies, using roles instead of users, maintaining identical test environments, and automating security checks. Gain practical methods to reduce vulnerabilities and manage AWS IAM access securely.
As a developer, your primary security focus is to make sure that what you are working on is secure. This mostly boils down to making sure the code you write and you use, such as frameworks and libraries, are free from security vulnerabilities.
But there are a few things we can do to help make the AWS account that runs the system more secure.
Follow an additive permission strategy
An additive permission strategy is when we start with zero permissions for the system and gradually add more when encountering an error during development. On the other hand, a subtractive one is when we start with all ...