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AWS Foundational Security Best Practice
AutoScaling.3
Auto Scaling group launch configurations should configure EC2 instances to require Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2)
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AWS AutoScaling
This control checks whether only IMDSv2 is enabled. This control fails if the metadata version is not included in the launch configuration or if both IMDSv1 and IMDSv2 are enabled.
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