This workflow automates the critical bottleneck of manual security reviews for infrastructure-as-code (IaC), preventing misconfigured resources from ever being provisioned. By embedding Open Policy Agent (OPA) or AWS Config rules into the deployment pipeline, it evaluates Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates against security and compliance guardrails. The operational upside is a dramatic reduction in audit findings, breach exposure, and costly post-deployment remediation, shifting security left to where it is cheapest and fastest to enforce.




