Introduction In AWS, roles have become an essential part of securely granting permissions to services without the need for manual key management. Traditionally, in legacy systems or on-premises environments, services like virtual machines would rely on static access keys or service accounts for authentication. But with AWS roles were introduced...
Introduction Imagine you're sitting in a room full of cloud architects and penetration testers, discussing the latest advancements in cloud security. The topic of the day is AWS's transition from Instance Metadata Service version 1 (IMDSv1) to version 2 (IMDSv2). A lot of people in the...
The biggest entrance door for attackers into your cloud environments are misconfigurations. In this article, we are going to explore the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) and how attackers could exploit it and escalate their privileges. This article is for informational and educational purposes only. The focus is to enable AWS...
