Automating the Management of the Operational Health of Cloud Accounts at Scale

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Presented at SRecon 2019 by

Jamie Walls

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In a large scale environment where engineers are empowered to independently deliver an application from concept to working production system, and in public cloud providers that allow access to do almost anything, there is a unique challenge of implementing and maintaining controls that align with tight banking regulations. I will discuss how we've used a combination of open source tools and our custom automation to solve various challenges such as:Limiting public accessStaying ahead of account resource limitsEnforcing resource ownershipCost controlSecurity patchingAccount-impacting mistakes