Writing on AWS cloud fundamentals and best practices.

All my recent blog posts for fundamentals on working with the cloud, collected in chronological order.

Your IAM Wildcards Are a Tooling Problem

Your IAM Wildcards Are a Tooling Problem

Developers keep shipping s3:* and AdministratorAccess, and it is not laziness. The deploy loop, indirect permissions, policy size limits, and Access Analyzer gaps all push you toward wildcards. Here is…

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Building Agents on AWS Just Got a Lot Easier

Building Agents on AWS Just Got a Lot Easier

The AgentCore harness preview pairs a managed runtime, server-side conversation memory, per-session microVMs, multi-provider model support, and streamed observability so you can ship an agent on AWS without writing the…

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SCPs, RCPs, and a Kill Switch: A Real AWS Organization Setup

SCPs, RCPs, and a Kill Switch: A Real AWS Organization Setup

A walkthrough of the AWS Fundamentals Organization built with Terraform. Service Control Policies, Resource Control Policies, CloudTrail audit pipeline, email and Slack alerts, and a budget-driven kill switch for sandbox…

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