October 15, 2021, Conformity—The Conformity Production account experienced a degree
of outbound API call rate-limiting for the IAM service in AWS, between 30th August
-16th September 2021, resulting in some missing and outdated checks by Conformity
Bot.
Cause
Working with the AWS account teams, we identified certain instances where Conformity
was making repetitive API calls. For example, redundant attempts to list and get certain
AWS managed policies contributing to throttling by AWS.
Resolution
We have made Conformity Bot checks for the IAM service more reliable by caching certain
IAM results to reduce the number of redundant API calls. This also reduces the likelihood
of API throttling on your accounts. We will continue to monitor the system to ensure
the success of these improvements. We have more improvements planned to increase the
efficiency of the Conformity Bot in the near future and will keep you updated with
the progress.