Clean serverless data layer

The one that passes. Encrypted, recoverable, with a dead-letter queue — what good looks like.

5 resources · AWS::DynamoDB::Table · AWS::SQS::Queue · AWS::SQS::QueuePolicy
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What the engine finds4 findings

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4 informational findingsthe work queue, table has point-in-time, every queue encrypts
The work queue has a dead-letter queueINTENT
Table has point-in-time recovery enabledINTENT
Every queue encrypts messages at restINTENT
Table encrypts data at restINTENT
Presets

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Public S3 bucket

The single most common AI-generated CDK mistake: a bucket left open to the world.

3 rules · 2 intent checks
From Concepts · S3 · Granting public read access
Security group open to 0.0.0.0/0

SSH open to the entire internet — the classic copy-paste ingress rule.

2 rules · 1 intent check
From Concepts · EC2 · Opening the security group for HTTP
S3 static website

Website hosting straight off a bucket — no CDN, no TLS, no access logging.

3 rules · 2 intent checks
Unencrypted RDS instance

A database with storage encryption off and backups barely configured.

6 rules · 2 intent checks
Wildcard IAM policy

Action "*" on Resource "*" — the permission grant that ends incident reviews.

1 rule · 2 intent checks
Public API Gateway with no authorizer

A REST API wired to Lambda, wide open, with no access logging.

7 rules · 1 intent check
DynamoDB table without point-in-time recovery

Fast to write, impossible to restore — no PITR, no encryption choice.

1 rule · 1 intent check
CloudFront distribution allowing HTTP

A CDN that will happily serve your site unencrypted, with no logging.

6 rules · 1 intent check
Unencrypted SQS queue

A queue with no server-side encryption and no dead-letter queue.

2 rules · 2 intent checks
VPC without flow logs

Network traffic no one can reconstruct after the fact.

1 rule · 1 intent check
Cognito pool with a weak password policy

Six characters, no symbols, no MFA — defaults nobody revisited.

3 rules · 2 intent checks
Clean serverless data layerPasses

The one that passes. Encrypted, recoverable, with a dead-letter queue — what good looks like.

no findings — this is what passing looks like