Aws

Lessons

1. AWS Credentials Learn how AWS credentials authenticate requests, how IAM users, roles, STS, and federation work, and how to manage credentials securely.
2. AWS ECS Task Credentials and IAM Task Roles Learn how ECS task roles provide temporary AWS credentials to containers, how task and execution roles differ, how SDKs retrieve credentials, and how to troubleshoot access securely.
3. AWS IAM Temporary Credentials Learn how AWS STS issues temporary credentials, how IAM roles and policies control them, and how to use them securely across workloads, CLI profiles, federation, MFA, and accounts.
4. AWS S3 credentials.yml Configuration Learn how credentials.yml can configure AWS S3 access, define buckets and regions, use IAM securely, separate environments, and troubleshoot common failures.
5. Retrieve IAM Role Security Credentials from Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Learn how EC2 applications obtain temporary IAM role credentials through IMDSv2, use them with AWS SDKs and CLI, handle rotation, and secure metadata access.
6. Securing AWS Credentials Backup Files in Amazon S3 Learn how to detect, contain, investigate, and prevent exposed credentials.bak and other sensitive backup files in Amazon S3.