Developer Criticizes Complexity of AWS Security Investigations

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A developer argues that investigating unexpected security changes in AWS can be unnecessarily time-consuming and complex. An example cited is tracing a permissive security group rule, which requires piecing together data from multiple services like CloudTrail, EC2, and AWS Config. The developer is building a tool called Kultarr to streamline this investigative process by consolidating change, identity, resource, and context data. The tool is currently in development, and the developer is soliciting feedback from other engineers on their investigation workflows.

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