Developer Adds Audit Memory and Dashboard to Terraform Drift Detection Pipeline

A developer extended a Terraform drift detection pipeline to persistently record and display infrastructure change events after finding that evidence was previously scattered across multiple AWS services. The updated system writes a structured audit record to DynamoDB each time drift is detected, capturing classification severity, remediation status, and associated CodeBuild build IDs in a single item. A read-only API Gateway and Lambda layer allow a static dashboard, served via CloudFront from a private S3 bucket, to query this history without exposing database credentials to the browser. The pipeline now covers the full lifecycle from drift detection and severity classification to remediation triggering and auditable record-keeping. No continuously running application server is required, as the frontend relies entirely on serverless components and static file delivery.
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