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Interview question · Cloud, Container & AI Infrastructure Security

How do infrastructure as code and policy as code prevent misconfiguration?

Most cloud breaches start with a setting, not an exploit. The scored answer moves those settings into reviewed code, checks them before deployment, and catches the drift that happens anyway.

mediumNewPreparation tags: Amazon, Google, MicrosoftUpdated Nov 2026

Most cloud breaches start with a setting, not an exploit. The scored answer moves those settings into reviewed code, checks them before deployment, and catches the drift that happens anyway.

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Cloud infrastructure is defined in Terraform, but misconfigurations such as public buckets and wildcard IAM keep reaching production.

  1. What does infrastructure as code give you?
  2. What is policy as code?
  3. What if someone bypasses the pipeline?
  4. How do you catch drift?
  5. How do you handle exceptions?
  6. How would you stop misconfigurations reaching production?

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