The main problem is this: By using tags for authorisation, you have a multitude of completely new - per-service - actions that can be used to compromise your security posture.
security groups
A collection of 4 posts
Edge Bundling Security Groups Redux
You can now visualise your own EC2 security groups using edge bundling - No scripts, no downloads! This small web application takes an AWS access key id and secret access key to make requests against your AWS account. The application
Updating Security Groups with Lambda
Paying for idle is so 2015 I had some Lambda Functions that scraped data from the Internet, and stored them in a database. Locking-down the RDS Security Group to only Lambda Functions turned out to be more complicated than I
Visualising EC2 Security Groups
Here's my first attempt at visualising AWS EC2 Security Groups in something other than a boring table: You can mouse over a SG name to see it's inbound (green) and outbound (red) connections to other groups/IP ranges. What is
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