EC2 Instance Security Hardening
Enhancing EC2 Security By Instance Hardening: Restricting IAM Role Access to Specific Users Introduction to EC2, IAM Roles, and the Need for Restriction In the dynamic world of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are pivotal for hosting critical applications. These applications often need to interact with AWS resources like S3 buckets. IAM roles offer a secure method to grant necessary permissions without relying on long-term credentials. The challenge, however, lies in ensuring that only the application or a specific user running it on the EC2 instance has the necessary IAM role privileges, while other users do not....