When managing massive amounts of data in Amazon S3, accidentally deleting the wrong object is a real risk. That’s where conditional deletes come in. This powerful S3 feature allows you to verify an object’s existence or modification status before you execute the deletion, dramatically improving the safety and reliability of your object storage operations. This…
Sometimes it’s necessary to get the list of EC2 stopped instances across different AWS accounts to see how many instances have been stopped. There might be variety of reasons why we may need to see the list of stopped EC2 instances (like whether those instances can be terminated or whether those instances needed to be…
AWS doesn’t provide stats on list of terminated EC2 instances across a single account or across every accounts in an organization. To get the list of terminated instances, we may need to use boto3 script and use EC2 instance client to get the list of terminated instances as shown below List of Terminated instances for…
AWS has recently changed the way in which the models can be enabled and now all the accounts will have model access enabled by default without the need to request for it. Because of this change the models can be restricted only by IAM Policies and SCP Policies. Let us see here how to use…
AWS Config Recordings and Rules act as guardrails, ensuring users’ actions align with the Cloud Governance team’s policies. While they are crucial for maintaining control, it’s vital to monitor them because each recording costs $0.003, and a large volume can significantly increase your bill. If your AWS account has lot of auto scaling instances then…
One of the most important things in AWS Access Keys. I have seen lot of organizations where users have created lot of keys and the governance team had a tough task in eliminating or reducing the keys., So as a first step it’s important to prevent creation of access key if you are going to…