4 articles tagged with "aws"
Hardcoded AWS credentials in Docker containers and .env files are a breach waiting to happen. Workload identity gives your services cloud access without a single long-lived key in sight.
Your 8-core VM is running at 3% CPU. Your Kubernetes pods are OOMKilled every Tuesday. Right-sizing fixes both — but only if you stop guessing and start measuring what your workloads actually need.
KMS doesn't encrypt your data — it encrypts the key that encrypts your data. That's envelope encryption, and once it clicks, cloud secrets management makes total sense.
Server-Side Request Forgery sounds complicated, but the concept is delightfully evil: trick a server into making HTTP requests *it* shouldn't be making, then read what comes back. It took down Capital One. It lives in your URL-fetching code. Let's fix that.