From Analysis to Remediation in Minutes: Using AWS Transform and Kiro to Tackle IaC Technical Debt

Infrastructure-as-Code repositories have a habit of quietly accumulating technical debt. A Lambda runtime drifts toward end-of-life, a copy-pasted resource block introduces a subtle bug, IAM policies stay broader than they need to be. These issues rarely surface until something breaks in production — or until an auditor asks uncomfortable questions.

In this post, I walk through how I used AWS Transform (ATX) inside Kiro to perform a comprehensive analysis of a real CloudFormation project, surface seven technical debt findings, and remediate six of them — all without leaving the IDE.