How to Stop Leaking AWS Keys to GitHub (And What to Do When You Already Did) (opens in new tab)

The 2 AM Phone Call Nobody Wants Last year I got pulled into an incident at a previous gig. A junior engineer had pushed a .env file to a public repo. Within 11 minutes, automated scanners had grabbed the AWS access keys and started spinning up GPU instances for crypto mining. By the time we rotated credentials, the bill was already four figures. This stuff happens constantly. The recent news cycle around government cloud keys ending up in public GitHub repos isn't unique — it's just the late...