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To mitigate this, AWS introduced , which requires a session-oriented approach:

The Instance Metadata Service allows a cloud virtual machine (EC2 instance in AWS) to query information about itself without needing an external network call or hardcoded configuration. This includes: To mitigate this, AWS introduced , which requires

These credentials are temporary and rotated automatically by AWS (usually every hour), ensuring that if a credential is intercepted, it has a short lifespan. To mitigate this