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Seven Critical AWS Architecture Risks and How to Fix Them

Presented by

Adrian SanMiguel, Principal Enterprise Architect, AWS | Michael Bordash, Principal Cloud Practice Architect, Rackspace Technology

About this talk

Your AWS infrastructure can harbor critical vulnerabilities that appear in nearly every enterprise cloud environment, from untagged resources destroying governance to unrotated secrets waiting to be exploited. This webinar reveals why these specific risks persist across organizations that know better, with insights from analyzing findings across dozens of enterprise accounts. AWS Principal Enterprise Architect Adrian San Miguel and Rackspace Principal Cloud Practice Architect Michael Bordash expose the uncomfortable truth: technical expertise fails when human nature takes over. Teams rush to build and prove concepts, promising to implement security later, but tomorrow never comes. The pressure to move fast, misunderstandings about AWS's shared responsibility model, and the choice of 200+ services create an environment where critical vulnerabilities multiply invisibly until they become headline-worthy breaches. Discover practical remediation approaches that acknowledge real-world constraints, limited expertise, competing priorities, and the relentless pace of innovation. Learn how to leverage AWS Config, GuardDuty, and other native tools effectively, understand realistic timelines for fixing these issues, and get clear criteria for deciding between building internal capabilities versus partnering with specialists. Most importantly, gain actionable strategies to break the cycle of accumulating architectural debt that leads to tomorrow's breach, compliance failure, or operational disaster.
Rackspace Technology

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Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end, hybrid, multicloud, and AI solutions company. We design, build, and operate our customers' cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize applications, build new products and adopt innovative technologies. Learn more at https://www.rackspace.com/
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