This article came to life after one of my friend posted a “horror” story on LinkedIn about how a small startup incurred $20k charges in a couple of days. Mismanaging AWS resources can result in big charges or PII information loss ( hello Pegasus Airlines ), in this post I will try to give a few tips on how to avoid this. Let’s begin. Use MFA ( multi-factor authentication ) for your root account. This will prevent hackers to get access to the AWS root…
