---
id: 4232
title: "Stand Your Cloud #3: AWS Provisioning and Access Requests"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/cloud-3-aws-provisioning-and-access-requests"
published_at: "2017-11-14T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "cloud-security", "aws", "access-control", "best-practices", "iam", "provisioning"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4232"
lang: en
---

# Stand Your Cloud #3: AWS Provisioning and Access Requests

## Summary

Closing post in Bishop Fox's AWS series: standardize EC2 provisioning with hardened AMIs, enforce naming and tagging, keep an asset inventory, and document access requests to curb permission creep.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2017-11-14T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/cloud-3-aws-provisioning-and-access-requests
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4232