How to perform a security audit of your AWS account in AWS CloudShell

AWS CloudShell makes it easy to spin up a terminal right in your AWS account. Since CloudShell is just like any other terminal, you have the ability to bootstrap other tools without the need to spin up an instance.

In my last post I showed how to install Steampipe and use it to instantly query your AWS APIs using SQL right in AWS CloudShell. For example here's a query that uses the Steampipe AWS plugin to query which AWS IAM …

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