Security

Your AWS access key

• It belongs to a dedicated IAM user that you create, limited by the policy in Connect your AWS account.
• The secret is encrypted at rest, never shown again after you save it, and used only to create and update your deployments.
• Revoke it in IAM, or disconnect your account in the dashboard, at any time.

Your environment variables

Values are encrypted at rest and can’t be read back from the dashboard. They are decrypted only when a release is handed to AWS.

Your code

• Your .env files, .git, virtualenvs and key files are never uploaded by the CLI.
• With GitHub, the app has read-only access to the repositories you choose, and each build uses a short-lived token scoped to one repository.

Sign-in

• The CLI logs in with a short code you approve in the browser, so no password is typed into a terminal.
• Tokens are stored in a file readable only by you, and you can revoke any of them in the dashboard.

Your app

• Traffic to your app is served over HTTPS.
• Your app runs in your own AWS account, so your AWS security tools and logging apply.

Reporting a problem

If you think you’ve found a security issue, tell us privately in the Slack community by sending a direct message to the team, rather than posting it in a public channel.