AWS IAM Access Analyzer: Identify Excessive Permissions and Reduce Security Risks
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-iam-access-analyzer-identify-excessive-permissions-and-reduce-security-risks/
 
If you’ve ever looked at your AWS environment and thought, “I have no idea if these permissions are too broad,” you’re not alone. Most teams give out IAM permissions quickly and rarely go back to clean them up. Over time, that adds up to a serious problem.

AWS CLI Authentication Explained: aws configure vs aws login
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-cli-authentication-explained-aws-configure-vs-aws-login/
 
If you’re setting up AWS CLI access and not sure whether to run aws configure or aws login, you’re not alone. These two commands look similar on the surface but work very differently under the hood — and picking the wrong one can create real security headaches down the road.

Building a Secure Serverless API on AWS: A Step-by-Step Architecture Guide
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/building-a-secure-serverless-api-on-aws-a-step-by-step-architecture-guide/
 
If you’ve been tasked with building a serverless API on AWS and security keeps you up at night, you’re in the right place. This podcast walks backend developers, cloud engineers, and solutions architects through a complete, production-ready approach to secure serverless architecture on AWS — from the first line of configuration to the final deployment.

How to Analyze AWS Account Details and Find Hidden Cloud Cost Savings
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/how-to-analyze-aws-account-details-and-find-hidden-cloud-cost-savings/
 
If your AWS bill keeps climbing but you’re not sure exactly where the money is going, you’re not alone. Most engineering and DevOps teams are sitting on hundreds or even thousands of dollars in monthly waste — idle EC2 instances, forgotten snapshots, oversized RDS databases — and they don’t realize it until someone finally digs in.

Beyond Traditional Pentesting: Continuous AWS Security Testing with Continuum
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/beyond-traditional-pentesting-continuous-aws-security-testing-with-continuum/
 
Annual penetration tests made sense when infrastructure changed slowly. In AWS environments, that’s just not the reality anymore. Resources spin up and down daily, configurations drift, and new vulnerabilities surface faster than most security teams can track. A point-in-time assessment gives you a snapshot — but snapshots go stale fast.

AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Explained: How SetDefaultPolicyVersion Can Lead to Admin Access
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-iam-privilege-escalation-explained-how-setdefaultpolicyversion-can-lead-to-admin-access/
 
If you manage AWS environments, this is something you need to know about. AWS IAM privilege escalation through SetDefaultPolicyVersion is one of those attack paths that looks harmless on the surface but can quietly give an attacker full admin access — without ever touching your root credentials.

AWS Disaster Recovery for SaaS: Why Aurora, Kafka, and S3 Replication Isn't Enough
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-disaster-recovery-for-saas-why-aurora-kafka-and-s3-replication-isnt-enough/
 
You’ve set up Aurora replication, got Kafka running across availability zones, and configured S3 replication rules. On paper, your AWS disaster recovery for SaaS looks solid. But here’s the thing — replication and recovery are not the same thing, and that gap can cost you everything when something actually breaks.

Terraform Count to For_Each Migration: How to Refactor Infrastructure Without Recreating Resources
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/terraform-count-to-for_each-migration-how-to-refactor-infrastructure-without-recreating-resources/
 
If you’ve ever switched a Terraform resource from count to for_each and watched your plan threaten to destroy and recreate everything, you already know the pain. It’s one of the most common refactoring traps in Terraform, and it catches engineers off guard more often than it should.

Amazon EBS on EKS: From PVCs to Persistent Storage
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/amazon-ebs-on-eks-from-pvcs-to-persistent-storage/
 
Running stateful apps on Kubernetes means you need storage that sticks around — even when pods restart or reschedule. That’s exactly where Amazon EBS on EKS comes in, giving your workloads reliable, block-level storage that Kubernetes can manage dynamically.

AWS Cost Optimization Dashboard: How to Detect Idle Resources and Reduce Cloud Spending
 
https://knowledge.businesscompassllc.com/aws-cost-optimization-dashboard-how-to-detect-idle-resources-and-reduce-cloud-spending/
 
Cloud bills have a way of quietly growing while no one’s watching. One month you’re running a lean setup, and three months later you’re staring at charges for EC2 instances that haven’t served traffic in weeks, S3 buckets holding forgotten data, and load balancers attached to nothing. Sound familiar?