Your AWS keys are public. Git revert did NOT save you. ?
Every public GitHub push gets scanned by bots in seconds. The original commit is still sitting in your git history — anyone running git log can read your secrets in plain text. AWS's own scanner will email you… right after someone else has already tried the keys.
Here's the 3-step fix (the order matters ?):
1. Rotate the secret FIRST → revoke + regenerate in AWS. Don't touch git yet.
2. Rewrite history with BFG Repo-Cleaner or git filter-repo, then force push.
3. Install pre-commit hooks — gitleaks or detect-secrets — so it never happens again.
Most engineers get step 1 backwards. Don't be that team.
? Save this for your next DevOps interview.
? Tag a dev who pushes straight to main.
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