EC2's most dangerous feature

Re:EC2's most dangerous feature by skywhopper on Sunday October 09, 2016 @10:04AM (#12671217)

Yeah, having the metadata available over an http interface is actually brilliant. Simple HTTP calls are easy to do from any network-capable OS or language.

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Re:EC2's most dangerous feature by jamiesonbecker on Sunday October 09, 2016 @10:35AM (#12671356)

So is reading a file on the filesystem.. easier, actually in most languages, since HTTP requests usually require loading an extra library.

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Re:EC2's most dangerous feature by ChoHag on Sunday October 09, 2016 @12:15PM (#12671813)

A library which uses the same (built-in) underlying IO mechanisms as the (built-in) filesystem.

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