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Upgrading Terraform Modules to AWS Provider v6 with Confidence
When HashiCorp releases a new major version of the AWS Terraform provider, engineering teams often brace themselves. Major upgrades bring new features and bug fixes, but they also come with breaking changes. A module that “just worked” under v5 might fail or drift silently under v6.
Read MoreImplementing Compliant Secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
I had a conversation with a colleague other day, and he asked who has access to a specific password. We use AWS Secrets Manager to store secret data and AWS Identity and Access Management to control access to it. Seemingly simple question, it was difficult to answer. I started off with describing how an IAM role can have particular permissions on a particular secret, etc. Pretty soon, I realized, that to answer what roles can read a secret, one would need to parse every available IAM policy.
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