Direct Handling of AWS Snapshots: Reading Files in a Snap!

This presentation examines contemporary approaches to analyzing AWS snapshots and then switches to a particular focus on utilizing Elastic Block Storage (EBS) APIs to implement Read/Seek capabilities on top of snapshots, resulting in a novel analysis method. This new method can easily be used to help triage AWS snapshots by directly accessing the data within the snapshot itself. The practical implementation of this technique will be demonstrated (in Rust) to showcase how data within a snapshot can be directly accessed …

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