It feels like way too many blogs about serverless can't end without mentioning its ability to scale. By any measure I'm a serverless zealot, but even I don't think this is something that should be focused on. While its ability
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While I found the recently announced list of checks that IAM Access Analyzer performs on your policies buried deep in the documentation, it wasn't as easy to navigate as I would've liked. Here's the full list of the check names,
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AWS Accounts With Leading Zeros
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So I've had the idea of this post for a while. Like "3 years ago" a while: CFN Layer Cake FTW!I first came across the idea of the CloudFormation Layer Cake from this AWS Advent blog post from 2012,
CloudFormation Examples on GitHub
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