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: These credentials are used for applications running on EC2 instances to securely access other AWS services without needing to store long-term credentials on the instance. fetch-url-http-3A-2F-2F169

When decoded, it translates to:

Once the attacker has these keys, they can use them from their own machine to access other AWS services (like S3 buckets or RDS databases) that the role has permissions for. How to Defend Your Infrastructure fetch-url-http-3A-2F-2F169