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AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-Abdulsomad Abdulwahab

AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-Abdulsomad Abdulwahab

Congratulations to Abdulsomad Abdulwahab on joining the 5 timers club!

Series: AWS Community Builders Spotlight-5 Timers Club (36 articles)

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    AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-William McLean
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    AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-Manas Mondal

Corey Strausman

Developer Community Manager (Supporting AWS Heroes and Community Builders) at AWS

Congratulations Abdulsomad Abdulwahab !

Big congrats to Abdulsomad Abdulwahab on joining the 5 timers club! The Compliance Architect: Five Frameworks, One Mission — Securing EKS at Scale. On their fictional plaque it reads:
Abdulsomad Abdulwahab published five deeply technical articles in under six weeks (June–July 2026), delivering a complete Compliance-as-Code series for Amazon EKS. Each piece tackled a different security control, container vulnerability alerting, version enforcement, control plane logging, public endpoint hardening, and secrets encryption, with full Terraform automation, real-time Slack and email notifications, and carefully reasoned remediation strategies that knew when to auto-fix and when to alert-only.
What makes this series stand out is that every article is standalone yet interconnected. Any team can clone a single repo and have production-ready compliance infrastructure running in minutes. Roslaan showed that governance content can be both rigorous and accessible, building a reusable library the community will reference long after publication. Welcome to the 5 Timers Club.

Read Abdulsomad's first five entries here:

  • Real-Time Container Vulnerability Alerts Using Amazon ECR, EventBridge, and SNS Read more 
  • Automating Amazon EKS Version Compliance with Terraform, AWS Config, and Real-Time Slack & Email Notifications Read more 
  • Automating Amazon EKS Logging Compliance with Terraform, AWS Config, and Auto Remediation (Part 2 in AWS-Config-EKS series) Read more 
  • Automating Amazon EKS Public Endpoint Compliance with Terraform, AWS Config, and Optional Auto Remediation (Part 3 in the AWS Config–EKS Series) Read more 
  • Automating Amazon EKS Secrets Encryption Compliance with Terraform, AWS Config, and Real-Time Slack & Email Notifications (Part 4 in the AWS Config EKS Series) Read more 
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Series: AWS Community Builders Spotlight-5 Timers Club (36 articles)

  1. 1
    AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-William McLean
  2. …
  3. 7
    AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-Abdulsomad Abdulwahab This article
  4. 8
    AWS CB Spotlight 5 Timers Club-Manas Mondal
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