This brief outlines five best practices for securing AWS cloud and container environments as container adoption and DevOps accelerate and expand the attack surface. It explains that short-lived containers and dynamic Kubernetes environments limit the effectiveness of traditional security tools, requiring cloud-native, runtime-aware controls. The guidance emphasizes continuous cloud security to identify misconfigurations, enforce least privilege, and monitor activity across AWS services, along with runtime-informed vulnerability prioritization that focuses remediation on active, exploitable risks. It also highlights real-time threat detection and response across containers, workloads, identities, and cloud services, continuous compliance validation against standards such as CIS and NIST, an

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