Containers
Author: Sam Mukherjee
Sam is a Technical Account Manager at AWS based in London, supporting enterprise customers in the Global Financial Services segment. He worked with the customer’s cloud engineering team throughout this migration and brought the AWS RAM and AWS Glue service teams alongside them as the two teams designed and validated the pattern.
Break-glass access for Amazon EKS when federated identity fails
Implementing break-glass access for Amazon EKS clusters removes the circular dependency where a federated identity provider outage locks you out of the clusters you need to reach to fix it. This post supplies a cross-account IAM role with enforced MFA, infrastructure-as-code templates, validation tests, and a post-incident recovery procedure.