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aws-essentials
Use when standing up the core AWS surface a small product needs: hardening a fresh account, a private S3 bucket, encrypted RDS Postgres, ECS Fargate vs EC2, CloudFront + OAC, or scoping an IAM policy to least privilege. NOT the CI pipeline that ships the container (that is `deployment`), NOT app-code access-control review (that is `secure-coding`).
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# AWS essentials — the core surface a small product needs, secured from the first command
Stand up the foundational AWS services a one-app product actually uses — IAM, S3, ECS Fargate,
RDS, CloudFront — with the security defaults that prevent the incidents (public buckets,
god-mode app roles, long-lived keys, unencrypted databases). Pick the right tier for *small*
(one app, modest traffic, two engineers), provision it correctly, and wire it without foot-guns.
```text
account hardening → IAM (roles + scoped policies) → S3 (private) / RDS (encrypted) / ECS Fargate → CloudFront (OAC) → infra exists, wired, least-privilege
```
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