AWS

Title card: Beyond Basic Secrets: Building a Universal PowerShell Secret Management Module

Beyond Basic Secrets: Building a Universal PowerShell Secret Management Module

One PowerShell module that talks to SecretStore, Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Bitwarden and CredMan through the same commands, so hybrid environments stop needing five different scripts.

Title card: Part 3: Deploying CIS Benchmarks at Scale with Systems Manager

Part 3: Deploying CIS Benchmarks at Scale with Systems Manager

Pushing CIS benchmarks to hundreds of Windows servers with Systems Manager and DSC, including CloudWatch dashboards and scheduled maintenance windows.

Title card: Part 2: Making Sure Systems Manager Actually Works and Logs Are Sent to CloudWatch

Part 2: Making Sure Systems Manager Actually Works and Logs Are Sent to CloudWatch

Why your Windows instances never show up in Systems Manager, how to fix the agent and the IAM role, and how to get DSC logs into CloudWatch. The troubleshooting guide the AWS docs skipped.

Title card: Part 1: Getting Started with PowerShell DSC and CIS Benchmarks in AWS

Part 1: Getting Started with PowerShell DSC and CIS Benchmarks in AWS

Windows security configuration drifts, constantly. This starts a step-by-step series on automating CIS benchmarks with PowerShell DSC and AWS Systems Manager.