How Do You Prepare ECS Fargate for a SOC 2 Audit?

Short summary

AWS SOC 2 certification covers infrastructure only; you must prove compliance for ECS task definitions via six Security Hub controls. The post maps each control (privileged access, root filesystem, secrets, logging, non-root users, public IPs) to a Terraform fix. Type II audit requires six months of continuous evidence—the ready-to-use code blocks accelerate the configuration phase.

• •SOC 2 compliance for ECS is a shared responsibility: AWS covers infrastructure; you prove task-definition hardening
• •Six specific Security Hub controls (ECS.4, ECS.5, ECS.8, ECS.9, ECS.20, ECS.2) map to Terraform fixes with copy-paste code
• •Type II audit is six months of evidence collection, not a one-day config sprint—continuous monitoring and audit trails required

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