AWS Security: a curated list of repositories

Troy Dieter
Aws
January 24, 2021

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AWS Security: a curated list of repositories

Overview

These lists will curate some of the latest GitHub repositories that assist with deploying to AWS using Terraform.

I’ll keep this list updated over time!

AWS Account Security

https://github.com/nozaq/terraform-aws-secure-baseline Terraform module to set up your AWS account with the secure baseline configuration based on CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations and AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.
https://github.com/albac/aws-mfa-script Script to fetch an MFA token for you to use temporary aws access credentials
https://github.com/asagage/aws-mfa-script Script to fetch an MFA token for you to use temporary aws access credentials

AWS Account Maintenance

https://github.com/jckuester/awsweeper A tool for cleaning your AWS account

AWS Account Tools

https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme ConsoleMe consolidates the management of multiple AWS accounts into a single interface. It allows your end-users and administrators to get credentials for your different accounts, and allows your users/administrators to manage or request cloud permissions.
https://github.com/camptocamp/terraboard A web dashboard to inspect Terraform States
https://github.com/superwerker/superwerker Open-source solution to automate the setup of an AWS Cloud environment with prescriptive best practices.
https://github.com/issafram/vault-credential-rotator

AWS Organizations

https://github.com/ScaleSec/terraform_aws_scp AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) written in HashiCorp Terraform.

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