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Two parts of a cloud setup are easy to overlook and worth securing early: the build pipeline and the APIs your apps expose. This guide covers the practical controls for both, written for healthcare and fintech teams in San Diego that run production workloads in the cloud. Why pipelines need attention A CI/CD pipeline can build, deploy and change infrastructure, so it often holds more access than any single engineer. If it signs in to the cloud with a long-lived access key, that key becomes one of the most valuable secrets you have. Replace long-lived keys with OIDC federation Instead of storing a permanent cloud key in the pipeline, use OIDC federation so each run receives temporary credentials. There is no standing key left behind to leak. Keep secrets out of code Store sensitive values in your cloud provider's key or secrets management service rather than in repositories or shared build variables, and rotate keys on a schedule. Check compliance inside the pipeline P...