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Misconfiguration Spotlight: Securing the EC2 Instance Metadata Service
Datadog Security Labs securitylabs.datadoghq.com
Welcome to Misconfiguration Spotlight, a regular look at common misconfigurations across cloud environments and how to fix them. Today, we’ll be taking a look at the AWS EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) and why you should be using version 2.
What is the Instance Metadata Service?
The EC2 Instance Metadata Service provides important information about each individual EC2 instance. This includes several categories of information, such as the AMI ID, hostname, associated security groups, and more.
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