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Amrut PatilPlaybooks for engineering leaders running multitenant SaaS on AWS who choose predictability over speed: boringly reliable services, controlled cloud spend, and audit-ready compliance.
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TCP #135: The GuardDuty org-wide gotchas that break your Terraform run
Delegated admin, per-feature enablement, severity routing, and the multi-region and provider traps, all as code
You decided to enable GuardDuty org‑wide as code. Good. Now you’re going to hit the gotchas that the console hides, but Terrafo...
TCP #134: GuardDuty org-wide is a one-click decision with a six-month tail.
Enabling GuardDuty across your organization takes just a few clicks. Making it useful is not.
Most teams do the same thing:
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Someone in the security account enables GuardDuty
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Delegated admin is set
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Auto‑enable is turned on fo...
TCP #133: Permission sets belong in a pipeline, not in the Identity Center console
The controls-as-code system for permission sets: repo structure, CI/CD deployment, privilege review gates, and drift detection
You centralized identity. IAM Identity Center is your source of truth. Human access runs through federation, not...
TCP #132: Your Control Tower guardrails belong in Terraform, not the console
Most teams enable Control Tower controls by clicking through the console.
Someone enables a guardrail during setup. Someone else enables three more during an audit scramble. A year later, the landing zone has 40 controls applied across fiv...
TCP #131: The multi-account checklist regulated SaaS teams should have written
Account strategy, identity, networking, tenancy, and audit — each section with owners, cadences, and evidence.
AWS publishes excellent reference architectures for multi-account design. Most engineering teams have read them. Most engineerin...
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