Cloud Security Podcast
AWS Multi-Account Security: What Netflix Learned
🚀 How do you secure thousands of AWS accounts without slowing down developers? Netflix’s cloud security experts Patrick Sanders & Joseph Kjar join us to break down their identity-first security model and share lessons from scaling security across a massive AWS multi-account environment.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why identity, not network, is the best security boundary
- The challenges of least privilege and right-sized access
- How Netflix migrates IAM roles while minimizing disruptions
- The impact of multi-account AWS security strategies
Guest Socials: Patrick's Linkedin +Joseph's Linkedin
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security BootCamp
If you are interested in AI Cybersecurity, you can check out our sister podcast - AI Cybersecurity Podcast
Questions asked:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:05) A bit about Joseph
(02:32) A bit about Patrick
(02:38) Scaling security across multiple accounts
(03:29) Least Privilege is hard
(06:44) Why go down the identity path?
(08:49) Identity based approach for least privilege
(15:43) Security at scale for Multi Account in AWS
(23:54) Lessons from the project
(27:02) What would be classified as an easy migration?
(30:55) How the project has progressed?
(35:01) Automation Pieces that enabled the project
(37:54) Where to start with scaling security across Multi Accounts?
(39:21) Resource Access Manager and how it fits into migration
Resources discussed in this interview:
Accelerate insights using AWS SDK instrumentation Talk
Patrick and Joseph’s Talk - Netflix's massive multi-account journey: Year two
Joseph and Patrick's previous interview on Cloud Security Podcast
- Broadcast on:
- 13 Feb 2025
🚀 How do you secure thousands of AWS accounts without slowing down developers? Netflix’s cloud security experts Patrick Sanders & Joseph Kjar join us to break down their identity-first security model and share lessons from scaling security across a massive AWS multi-account environment.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why identity, not network, is the best security boundary
- The challenges of least privilege and right-sized access
- How Netflix migrates IAM roles while minimizing disruptions
- The impact of multi-account AWS security strategies
Guest Socials: Patrick's Linkedin +Joseph's Linkedin
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security BootCamp
If you are interested in AI Cybersecurity, you can check out our sister podcast - AI Cybersecurity Podcast
Questions asked:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:05) A bit about Joseph
(02:32) A bit about Patrick
(02:38) Scaling security across multiple accounts
(03:29) Least Privilege is hard
(06:44) Why go down the identity path?
(08:49) Identity based approach for least privilege
(15:43) Security at scale for Multi Account in AWS
(23:54) Lessons from the project
(27:02) What would be classified as an easy migration?
(30:55) How the project has progressed?
(35:01) Automation Pieces that enabled the project
(37:54) Where to start with scaling security across Multi Accounts?
(39:21) Resource Access Manager and how it fits into migration
Resources discussed in this interview:
Accelerate insights using AWS SDK instrumentation Talk
Patrick and Joseph’s Talk - Netflix's massive multi-account journey: Year two
Joseph and Patrick's previous interview on Cloud Security Podcast