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Category: AWS CodeBuild

Implementing Defense-in-Depth Security for AWS CodeBuild Pipelines

Recent security research has highlighted the importance of CI/CD pipeline configurations, as documented in AWS Security Bulletin AWS-2025-016. This post pulls together existing guidance and recommendations into one guide. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices help development teams deliver software efficiently and reliably. AWS CodeBuild provides managed build services that integrate with source code […]

Automate Cedar policy validation with AWS developer tools

Automate Cedar policy validation with AWS developer tools

Cedar is an open-source language that you can use to write policies and make authorization decisions based on those policies. AWS security services including AWS Verified Access and Amazon Verified Permissions use Cedar to define policies. Cedar supports schema declaration for the structure of entity types in those policies and policy validation with that schema. […]

Integrating AWS CloudFormation security tests with AWS Security Hub and AWS CodeBuild reports

The concept of infrastructure as code, by using pipelines for continuous integration and delivery, is fundamental for the development of cloud infrastructure. Including code quality and vulnerability scans in the pipeline is essential for the security of this infrastructure as code. In one of our previous posts, How to build a CI/CD pipeline for container […]