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The response from the metadata service might look similar to this:

http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ The response from the metadata service might look

/latest/meta-data/ is part of the path used to access metadata about the instance. The response from the metadata service might look

When you query http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ , the service returns a list of IAM role names associated with the EC2 instance. The response from the metadata service might look

: An attacker wants to steal your instance's secret keys to gain unauthorized access to your AWS environment.