Stop Your Developers From Creating Vulnerable Resources with CloudFormation Hooks

Want to figure out a way to prevent cloud engineers/developers from creating non-compliant/vulnerable resources using AWS cloud-native features? 🤔🤨

If so, this video is for you! 😊

The purpose of this video is to provide you with an introduction to CloudFormation Hooks, how to activate pre-existing hooks, and how to test those hooks by writing a CloudFormation stack from scratch and deploying that stack using the AWS CLI. 🤩🔥

⏱️ Timecodes (Chapters) ⏱️
0:00 - Introduction & Problem Statement
1:57 - CloudFormation Hooks Terminology & Concepts
10:10 - Building out PoC
32:56 - Outro (Like, Subscribe, Hit the Bell)

The links that you should reference are highlighted below:
🔗 Project Repository: https://github.com/The-DevSec-Bluepri...
🔗 VS Code Installation: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
🔗 AWS CLI Help: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/lates...
🔗 Getting Started with CloudFormation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudF...
🔗 CloudFormation AWS CLI Commands: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/lates...
🔗 CloudFormation Hooks 101: https://dev.to/aws-builders/cloudform... (Shoutout to Sri for writing this documentation)
🔗 Developing & Publishing Hooks: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudform...

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