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AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity

by Xavier Garceau-Aranda infosec.rodeo published 2022-11-119 min read

This is going to be a highly opinionated blog post. I think AWS is great and use it daily, but their implementation of IAM is unnecessarily complicated.

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