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Community-provided Amazon Machine Images come with malware risk

Security researchers are sounding the alarm about Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) tainted with malicious code that could compromise an organization’s cloud environment. While the method is not new, it ...
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Creating a Custom Windows AMI in AWS

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.
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Cryptominer Found Embedded in AWS Community AMI

Security researchers urge AWS customers running Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances based on community Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to check for potentially malicious embedded code, following their ...
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whoAMI name confusion attacks can expose AWS accounts to malicious code execution

Thousands of active AWS accounts are vulnerable to a cloud image name confusion attack that could allow attackers to execute codes within those accounts. According to DataDog research, vulnerable ...
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Creating Time-Based AMI Copies on AWS

For years, Amazon has made it possible to copy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), either within a region or across regions. These AMI copy operations are often a key step in disaster recovery operations.