How I use the good parts of AWS

Re:How I use the good parts of AWS by DVassallo on Sunday July 28, 2019 @01:18AM (#20545984)

Yes, I do the same. For service roles I just use the PowerUser managed role. I don’t see the need to put access control on Amazon’s ability to call it’s own services. I only restrict my EC2 instance profile, since that’s a bit more vulnerable, and I tend to know very precisely what it should have access to.

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Re:How I use the good parts of AWS by poxrud on Sunday July 28, 2019 @09:15AM (#20547366)

What if you have a lambda with a full admin role that is not sanitizing its inputs? Or maybe it's using an outdated file parsing library (csv/yaml) with a vulnerability. Now your entire AWS account could potentially be compromised.

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Re:How I use the good parts of AWS by DVassallo on Sunday July 28, 2019 @01:31PM (#20548737)

Yes, I would use a restricted role for Lambda too. Anything that gets creds in user space gets restricted permissions: EC2, Lambda, ECS, etc.

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