AWS Hardening

The baseline-configuration material the operator points a blue team at when standing up or locking down an AWS estate. Use it as the starting checklist, not the finish line; CIS benchmarks and Cloud Conformity rules cover the well-known misconfigurations, but every estate carries its own service-specific footguns.

References

• CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark

• AWS Security Reference Architecture

• Cloud Conformity AWS rules

• AWS Defend for runtime defensive monitoring on top of the hardened baseline.