Use Aiden to Generate Cloud Security & Compliance Audits

Security and compliance audits tend to be slow, manual, and inconsistent. Someone clicks through the console, pulls findings into a spreadsheet, and reformats everything into whatever template the team expects. The video below shows a different path: you point Aiden at a cloud account — or a specific piece of infrastructure — and ask it to run the audit for you.

The prompt is deliberately simple, something like "scan my prod AWS account and do a security audit." From there you'd expect a standardized, comprehensive report back. So how does a basic prompt produce that?

Skills under the hood

Aiden executes skills. When you send that prompt, Aiden runs a confidence match and selects the right one — in this case, an AWS security audit skill. The skill is where the audit pipeline is actually defined, so the output is repeatable instead of improvised every time.

A three-agent pipeline

This skill runs as a three-agent pipeline, with each agent given a focused job:

• Agent 1 — Infrastructure. Connects to AWS and scans for security risks in us-west-2, where we deploy. It checks EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases along with their security groups, flagging anything publicly accessible.
• Agent 2 — Identity & access. Looks at users created or deleted in the last 30 days and hunts for long-lived credentials.
• Agent 3 — Reporting. The easy job: summarize everything the first two agents found and generate the report.

Splitting the work this way keeps each agent's search dedicated and refined. It also prevents context leakage between steps, which keeps the quality of the final output high.

Matching your existing format

The report doesn't come out in some generic template. Its structure lives as an entry in the Knowledge Hub that defines how a cloud security audit report should look. Upload your existing reports and Aiden scrapes that format, then mimics it — so the output drops straight into your current practices.

And if the audit needs to land as a PDF emailed out weekly, biweekly, or monthly, Aiden handles that too.

The result

In the run shown here, Aiden worked through 86 steps, and you can follow its full chain of thought along the way. The summary it returned wasn't pretty: 4 public buckets and a high-risk security group. (The on-screen table is a little hard to read — there's also a cleaner PDF version generated alongside it.)

The point is that the table follows the same format as previous reports. Aiden steps in, adopts your existing audit practices, and starts producing these on its own — without skipping a beat.

Wrapping up

A one-line prompt, a defined skill, and a known report format are enough for Aiden to run a real cloud security audit and deliver it the way your team already expects. Watch the walkthrough above to see it end to end — and reach out if you'd like to try it against your own AWS account.

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