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Paavan Mistry

Author: Paavan Mistry

Paavan is a Senior Manager leading AI Security and Compliance Initiatives at AWS, with over 10 years of experience driving enterprise-scale security solutions in cloud and AI environments. He has built and scaled high-performing teams across Developer Advocacy, Solutions Architecture, and Security Engineering, delivering critical AI safety frameworks and compliance programs that protect millions of AWS customers. His expertise spans AI threat modeling, ML security architecture, and regulatory compliance for emerging AI technologies. Paavan combines deep technical knowledge with strategic leadership, having partnered with C-suite executives to shape AWS's AI security roadmap and governance standards. Connect with him on Twitter [@98pm] and GitHub [@paavan98pm].

Improve availability and latency of applications by using AWS Secret Manager’s Python client-side caching library

November 1, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Note from May 10, 2019: We’ve updated a code sample for accuracy. Today, AWS Secrets […]

How to rotate a WordPress MySQL database secret using AWS Secrets Manager in Amazon EKS

AWS Secrets Manager recently announced a feature update to rotate credentials for all Amazon RDS database types. This allows you to automatically rotate credentials for all types of databases hosted on Amazon RDS. In this post, I show you how to rotate database secrets for a non-RDS database using AWS Secrets Manager. I use a […]