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How to get rid of AWS access keys- Part 1: The easy wins (www.wiz.io)

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(I am not fond on vendor's blogs as the signal to noise ratio is very low, since they are written to please search engines more than engineers... but Scott Piper gets a pass.)

I found this insightful, access keys are such a liability that is better to tame as early as possible. Fixing the problem a scale is a lot more challenging.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think access keys are a legacy authentication mechanism from a time where the objective was increasing cloud adoption and public clouds wanted to support customers to transition from on prem to cloud infra.

But for cloud native environments there are safer ways to authenticate.

A data point: for GCP now Google also advise new customers to enable from the start the org policy to disable service account key creation.