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20 Years Spent Working with AWS, It Was Never Not My Job

·2026.04.12 12:31

Key point

A firsthand account from a FreeBSD security perspective of steadily changing AWS's architecture and integrity issues since the early days.

Details

Right after Amazon S3 launched in 2006, collaboration with AWS began as the FreeBSD Security Officer.

In the early EC2 environment, there were concerns about custom kernel restrictions and Xen security, and proposals for improving feasibility and strengthening security were reflected over the long term.

The key point isn't simple outside criticism, but long-term hands-on experience of continually raising AWS's security architecture and integrity issues and actually influencing the real design.

  • Consistently tracked security issues since AWS's early days
  • Pointed out EC2's constraints and Xen-based security concerns
  • Improvements for running FreeBSD and strengthening security were gradually reflected

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