This document discusses automating security in cloud workloads using DevSecOps. It outlines why security automation is important to reduce risk and keep pace with scalable infrastructure. The security team's role changes to focus on providing security as a service across the development lifecycle. Security automation can be applied in continuous integration/deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and runtime environments. Practical examples are provided like automatically isolating compromised instances. A variety of tools from AWS and partners can help with tasks like validation, tracking, alerting and reporting to benchmark security posture and drive remediation. Open source projects also offer code to learn from for automating security best practices in AWS environments.