• Likitha Yogesh
• Nidhi N
• Spoorthi Rai
• Shreyas Reddy B
• Dr. Deepthi V S

—With the fast growth of cloud computing and DevOps,Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has become the key- stone of managing scalable and reproducible cloud environments.as yet,configuration drift—the difference between declared infras tructure computer code and deployed state—represents funda mental threats to cloud security system,compliance,and opera tional reliability.Nonetheless,This work presents an Automated IaC Drift Security Framework using Terraform,AWS Con f ig,Open Policy Agent (OPA),and GitOps processes for continuous drift detection,validation,and remediation.The approach path use GitOps pipeline to automatically roll back to the prior secure state after endlessly detecting difference between AWS resources and IaC templates and classifying them into security severity level.Additionally,The envisioned modeling be intended to create a self-healing,security-oriented,and auditable cloud infrastruc ture that addresses research and industry demands for robust cloud management.

Infrastructure-as-Code, Drift Detection, GitOps, Terraform, AWS, DevSecOps, Cloud Security.

"Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Drift Security with GitOps-Driven Auto-Remediation in AWS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 11, page no.b468-b472, November-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2511160.pdf

"Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Drift Security with GitOps-Driven Auto-Remediation in AWS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 11, page no. ppb468-b472, November-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2511160.pdf