The task of internal compliance and audit teams

Traditionally, security and compliance teams have spent a great deal of time manually managing systems compliance information and taking steps to improve compliance. As a security architect or engineering team member, a part of your responsibility is to prepare the working environment (in this case, the AWS Cloud) so that, when an audit takes place, the necessary information is available. These tasks fall upon a small number of highly specialized individuals. This makes managing compliance manually a burdensome and time-consuming task that is much better automated with the use of specialized tools. After all, a manual process is not scalable in the cloud, especially as the number of accounts grows to tens or hundreds and the number of resources you need to keep track of scales exponentially with each account.

Preparing items for compliance and auditing is an annual event in a traditional IT account. This usually becomes the priority...