May 3, 2024, 3:43 p.m. | Kfir

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Originally published on Medium in August, I shared this post on this platform after coming across an insightful blog on Slack about migrating to AWS IMDSv2. The post I published last August highlights the reasons why you should also contemplate making the move.


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Amazon’s Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) provides a way for applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to access instance metadata and user data. However, the first version of this service, IMDSv1, has …

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