Enhancing Deployment Security through the Integration of IAM Roles and GitHub Actions

Until now, I faced challenges regarding the management of credentials (IAM user's access key and secret access key) when deploying the AWS SDK to Lambda.

Using the method of reading the access key of an IAM user with strong resource permissions from environment variables posed a significant security risk in case of key leakage. As a result, I shifted to using IAM roles.

In this article, I'll outline the steps I took for this transition, serving as a reference for …

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