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Not just a scanner — a full security advisor. Run 27+ risk checks across 10 AWS services, get an AI-generated fix plan with exact console steps. Free. No signup.
Most developers launch on AWS without ever auditing their infrastructure. One misconfigured security group. One user without MFA. One public S3 bucket. That is all an attacker needs.
SSH port 22 exposed to 0.0.0.0/0 means automated scanners find your server within minutes. They never stop.
One leaked password. Full account access. No second check standing between an attacker and everything you have built.
Public S3 buckets serve your files to anyone who finds the URL. Most owners never know until it is too late.
No manual IAM setup. Click the link, deploy our one-click CloudFormation stack, and paste the Role ARN. We assume that role for the scan — read-only, nothing else.
We check EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Budgets, GuardDuty, Lambda, and Secrets Manager across 27 security rules simultaneously.
Not just what is wrong. Why an attacker would target it. And the precise AWS console clicks to fix it today.
Weighted across Security (40%), Availability (25%), Disaster Recovery (15%). Higher is safer. Always.
Ranked by impact × ease. Fix these 5 things and your score improves 40 points.
What is wrong. Why it is dangerous. How to fix it. Every single finding.
Watch your infrastructure being analyzed in real time. Every service. Every check.
The checks that actually matter for a solo developer or small team. Nothing more, nothing less.
Every tool I found cost $500/month, required a security team to interpret, and was built for enterprises with dedicated compliance people. I'm a CS student building on AWS at 2am. None of those tools were for me.
So I built Emfirge for people like me. A free advisor that speaks plain English, tells you exactly what is wrong, and gives you the steps to fix it today.
No enterprise contract. No security degree. Just clarity.
One-click CloudFormation stack. No keys. No manual IAM. We assume a read-only role to scan — nothing else.
Click below. AWS Console opens with our pre-built template. Click "Create stack" — takes under 60 seconds.
Open AWS Console — Deploy StackAfter the stack creates, go to the Outputs tab and copy the RoleArn value.
Cloud misconfiguration is the leading cause of data breaches for small teams and individual developers. According to IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average breach costs $4.88 million. For a solo developer or early-stage startup, a single misconfigured S3 bucket or exposed SSH port can mean complete account compromise, data loss, and irreversible reputational damage.
The tools that exist to prevent this fall into two categories. Enterprise platforms like Wiz, Orca, and Lacework cost thousands of dollars per month and are designed for dedicated security teams at large organizations. Free tools like AWS Trusted Advisor and Prowler produce hundreds of technical findings with no explanation of severity, no plain-English descriptions, and no actionable guidance on what to fix first.
Between these two extremes sits an enormous underserved market — the estimated 30 million solo developers and small startups actively running workloads on AWS with no security background and no budget for enterprise tooling. These users are not careless. They are building products, moving fast, and operating without the institutional knowledge that larger teams take for granted. They need an advisor, not another dashboard full of alerts they do not understand.
Emfirge connects to an AWS account using a one-click CloudFormation role — no access keys, no manual IAM configuration — scans the infrastructure across 10 services and 27 security rules, scores the account on a 0–100 scale, and uses Gemini 2.5 Flash to generate a prioritized action plan in plain English.
The key distinction from every existing tool is the advisor experience. Every finding Emfirge surfaces has three layers — not just a label and a description, but a complete picture of what happened, why it matters, and exactly what to do about it today.
This three-layer structure is what separates Emfirge from a scanner. A scanner tells you what is wrong. An advisor tells you what to fix first, why it matters, and exactly how to fix it today.
Emfirge uses AWS cross-account role assumption instead of access keys. This is a fundamentally more secure and user-friendly approach.
EmfirgeReadOnlyRole with the AWS managed ReadOnlyAccess policy attached.RoleArn value from the CloudFormation Outputs tab.STS AssumeRole, performs the scan, and temporary credentials expire automatically after the session ends.The collector covers every service that matters for a solo developer or small team — the checks that cause real breaches, not theoretical audit items.
Every account starts at 100. Each finding that fires deducts points based on severity. The score never goes below 0. A higher score always means a safer account — the scale is never reversed.
The overall score is a weighted average across categories:
Cost is scored separately on the same penalty system and reported independently from the overall risk score.
After scoring is complete, findings are passed to Google Gemini 2.5 Flash via the google-genai library. Gemini returns a prioritized action plan of up to 5 items, ranked by impact multiplied by ease of fix.
Each action contains a plain-English explanation of what is wrong, a concrete attacker scenario describing the real-world risk, and exact AWS console steps to remediate the issue. The prompt instructs Gemini to act as a knowledgeable advisor speaking directly to a developer. Jargon is explicitly prohibited in the prompt instructions.
If Gemini fails for any reason, the scan still completes successfully and returns all findings, scores, and recommendations without the AI advisory layer. The product degrades gracefully.
Every architectural decision in Emfirge is made with the assumption that the user's trust is the product. These are not afterthoughts — they are constraints that shaped the entire system.
Millions of developers run AWS infrastructure every day with no visibility into what they have left exposed. They are not irresponsible — they simply have no tool that speaks their language, respects their time, and gives them actionable guidance they can act on today.
Emfirge is that tool. Free, fast, plain English, and specific. Not a report. An advisor.
In the upcoming days, more services and rules will be added with the support of other Cloud organizations.