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Scanners show you the attack path.

I built blast-audit, a browser-only AWS attack path visualizer.

cloud-audit Threat Feed v1 - 10 open source detectors mapped to documented 2025-2026 AWS incidents.

Field notes from building Prisma AIRS Network Intercept in Azure under Strata Cloud Manager. 8 silent failures (PBF without UDR, Target Models trap) - with fixes.

Side-by-side benchmark of 4 AWS auth methods for self-hosted K3s: Instance Profile, IRSA-S3, IRSA-CloudFront, Roles Anywhere.

I ran 5 OSS AWS IAM privesc scanners against 57 escalation paths.

I lab-tested all three AWS Bedrock AgentCore network modes after Unit 42's April 7 disclosure.

What failed in the Trivy and tj-actions supply chain attacks. 12 concrete hardening steps with YAML and Terraform code for GitHub Actions pipelines.

Prowler, Trivy, CloudFox, Heimdall, and cloud-audit compared.

How to debug IAM Access Denied errors, spot OIDC privilege escalation, and write Terraform fixes using multi-model AI consensus - querying multiple LLMs simultaneously to eliminate hallucinations.

Run a full CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v3.0 assessment from your terminal. 62 controls, 55 automated, per-control Terraform remediation.

One scanner runs 600 AWS checks.

One missing condition in your IAM trust policy exposes every role to any public GitHub repository.

AWS cost waste averages 27-35% of cloud spend. 5 patterns I find in every audit: orphaned EBS, infinite CloudWatch retention, idle NAT Gateways, gp2 volumes, oversized RDS.

Three years of Palo Alto VM-Series with GWLB and Transit Gateway. 9 failure modes that cost billable hours: asymmetric routing, MTU, health checks.

Q1 2025 independent test: 12 of 2,028 exploits blocked by AWS Network Firewall.

Since January 2026, AWS names the exact policy ARN that blocked you. 7-layer evaluation order, STS decode command, and a debugging flowchart.

Root without MFA, public RDS, 900-day-old keys. 17 AWS security misconfigurations I find in almost every account audit.

CyberRatings Q1 2025: AWS Network Firewall blocked 0.59% of 2,028 exploits.

89 CRITICAL CVEs in production, CEO wants a report by Friday.

Google silently swapped to Sapphire Rapids without AVX-512 runtime. llama.cpp crashed after 6 months working.

Validation blocks, preconditions, and postconditions.