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AWS Developer Security Best Practices

April 5, 2026

Secure Development Lifecycle

Implement security from commit to production.

Security Pipeline

Code Analysis:
CodeGuru Reviewer (ML code review)
CodeWhisperer (real-time suggestions)
SonarQube/GitHub Advanced Security

Container Security:
Amazon Inspector (vulnerability scans)
ECR image scanning
Docker Content Trust

Secrets Scanning:
No hard-coded credentials
Pre-commit hooks
GitGuardian integration

Deployment Security:
IAM Roles Anywhere
Image signing (CodeBuild)
SBOM generation

Shift-Left Security

IDE vulnerability scanning
PR security gates
Pipeline security scanning
Runtime protection (WAF/GuardDuty)

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