Global Chip Manufacturer Stands Up Least-Privilege AWS Guardrails in Days
A global chip manufacturer used Native to stand up secure-by-design, least-privilege AWS guardrails in days with a single cloud security engineer, reaching up to 100% control alignment across its clouds and shipping a new AWS policy every week.
The global chip manufacturer operates across three cloud providers but has one full-time and one part-time cloud security engineer, whose deep expertise was in Azure rather than AWS. As the company planned to expand its AWS footprint, it had no clear way to securely architect AWS to enforce least privilege and minimize attack surface, and new AWS guardrails had to stay consistent with the controls it already ran in Azure, without months of ramp-up or new headcount.
Native installed secure-by-design AWS guardrails in days, translating the company's existing multi-cloud controls into AWS-native enforcement. On top of the CloudTrail-driven simulation, AWS Organizations enforcement, and CloudWatch and SNS visibility Native uses everywhere, this engagement used Amazon Bedrock models to map the company's Azure and other-cloud controls to their underlying objectives, then compiled them into consistent AWS enforcement. AWS organization authorization policies (SCPs and RCPs) don't cover the management account, a gap Native overcame by enforcing policy on the management account itself using IAM Permissions Boundaries, handling the translation from architectural intent to implementation.
- secure-by-design guardrail alignment achieved across MPS's clouds
- Up to 100%
- acceleration of the secure-by-design guardrail roadmap across all providers
- +200%
Lessons Learned
A one-person team could adopt AWS securely by translating existing multi-cloud controls into their underlying objectives rather than rebuilding enforcement from scratch. Letting the team make architectural decisions while Native handled the AWS-specific engineering underneath meant guardrails could ship weekly instead of waiting on one person to become fluent in AWS.