AWS services that can be potentially hit by attackers include Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Key Management Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 have confirmed that they have compromised a customer’s AWS cloud account with thousands of workloads using a misconfigured identity and access management (IAM) role.

The researchers found that 22 application programming interfaces (APIs) across 16 different AWS services could be abused in the same way by attackers.

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