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Learn how to build a production-ready AWS environment from scratch with limited resources and budget in this 46-minute conference talk. Discover the real-world challenges faced by WithSecure Consulting when they needed to create an entire new AWS estate quickly, without being an engineering house and with minimal resources available. Explore the unique perspective of penetration testers and security consultants who found themselves on the engineering side, building an environment to support security consulting and research work that requires deviating from traditional security best practices. Examine key engineering decisions and tradeoffs including authentication and authorization strategies, organization structure and hardening approaches, workload segregation considerations, and code and infrastructure deployment methods across diverse teams. Understand how to implement security monitoring solutions on a tight budget while supporting non-standard requirements. Gain battle-tested insights and practical advice for designing, building, and operating an AWS estate with limited personnel and financial constraints, along with a clear understanding of the necessary tradeoffs involved in such implementations.
