Ensuring Compliance with Cloudformation-Guard: A Secure Path to AWS Cloud Deployment

[dheeraj3choudhary]

What is the title of the content you're proposing?

Ensuring Compliance with Cloudformation-Guard: A Secure Path to AWS Cloud Deployment

Describe your content, including takeaways for the reader, in three to four sentences.

1. Introduction - AWS CloudFormation Guard is an open-source general-purpose policy-as-code evaluation tool. It provides developers with a simple-to-use, yet powerful and expressive domain-specific language (DSL) to define policies and enables developers to validate JSON- or YAML- formatted structured data with those policies.
2. Compliance Monitoring in AWS: Why It Matters
3. Installing and Configuring cfn-guard
4. Exploring Rule Development in cfn-guard
5. Testing and Enforcing Compliance with cfn-guard
   6.Example :- Integrating cfn-guard with AWS Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Pipelines. This includes

• Cloudfromation template for creating roles, s3 bucket and AWS codepipline
• cfn-gurad rules - 3 rules temaplates
• End to end flow architecture diagram.

What theme is your content related to?

Security Automation, Devtool, Devops, Devsecops

When can you provide your first draft of content by?

5th August

What are 2-3 links to previous written content you have published?

https://dheeraj3choudhary.com/stream-aws-cloudwatch-logs-to-amazon-opensearch-service-successor-to-amazon-elasticsearch-service
https://dheeraj3choudhary.com/aws-lambda-and-s3or-automate-csv-file-processing-from-s3-bucket-and-push-in-dynamodb-using-lambda-python
https://dheeraj3choudhary.com/automate-disabling-and-re-enabling-aws-cloudwatch-alarms-during-maintenance-window
https://dheeraj3choudhary.com/automate-aws-cloudwatch-log-group-retention-using-lambda-in-python
https://dheeraj3choudhary.com/aws-ecs-or-ec2linux-networking-cluster-creation-from-scratch

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