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Last updated: April 29, 2026
AWS regions are physically separate data centres. But your IAM is global. A user with ec2:* permission has it in every region.
AWS regions are physically separate data centres. But your IAM is global. A user with ec2:* permission has it in every region.
Attackers spin up instances in regions you don’t monitor. Crypto mining in ap-east-1 while you watch us-east-1.
The mindset: enabled regions = monitored regions. Org policy: SCP that denies actions in unused regions.
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