Q: Minimal AWS Permissions for Secure Deployment?
Hi guys, your product looks promising!
My question is:
Can your product help grant the minimal permissions needed to deploy an app securely while ensuring optimal performance?
For context, when I deployed an app on AWS using broad permissions, it triggered deployments across multiple VPS instances in various regions. Despite using free tiers, it consumed excessive resources and led to unexpected charges—even after stopping instances, databases, and elastic IPs. I had to manually delete each resource to nearly zero my bill.
shridhan0
Mar 28, 2025A: Thank you Xavier, for using our product and for taking the time to share your feedback. We truly appreciate it.
Our AI-driven AICloudInsights tool is designed to provide essential resource insights to help monitor and control overall costs, security risks, and activities across multiple accounts. Based on your experience, we understand the importance of enforcing minimal permissions to prevent unintended resource consumption and unexpected charges.
To optimize cost while ensuring security and performance, we recommend following these AWS best practices:
✅ Limit Non-Critical Resource Tracking: Use AWS Config’s recording exclusions to avoid tracking ephemeral or temporary resources (e.g., Lambda versions, spot instances).
✅ Disable Unused Rules: Review and turn off redundant AWS Config rules to reduce overhead.
✅ Optimize Multi-Region Usage: Disable AWS Config in regions where compliance checks aren’t required.
✅ Centralized Monitoring: Use AWS Organizations aggregators to consolidate resource data across accounts, reducing redundant evaluations.
✅ Set Up Cost Allocation Tags: Tag resources to identify high-cost teams/services.
You may want to get in touch with our experts, to address above.
Additionally, based on your feedback—we have fine-tuned our tool to enforce minimal permissions while still delivering the necessary insights.
Lastly, if you ever need to roll back the tool, we’ve added detailed instructions to ensure a smooth and minimal-intervention removal process.
Let us know if we can assist further. Thanks again for your valuable insights!