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ec2-010
Last Updated:
April 21, 2022
An Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that grants administrative privileges. A compromised EC2 instance configured with this role would allow an attacker to have administrative access. EC2 instances should be configured with restricted IAM roles using least privilege best practices.