SCS-C03 · Question #24
An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance that has an IAM role attached. The IAM role provides access to an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key and an Amazon S3 bucket.
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An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance that has an IAM role attached. The IAM role provides access to an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key and an Amazon S3 bucket. The key is used to access 2 TB of sensitive data that is stored in the S3 bucket. A security engineer discovers a potential vulnerability on the EC2 instance that could result in the compromise of the sensitive data. Due to other critical operations, the security engineer cannot immediately shut down the EC2 instance for vulnerability patching. What is the FASTEST way to prevent the sensitive data from being exposed?
Options
- ADownload the data from the existing S3 bucket to a new EC2 instance. Then delete the data from
- BBlock access to the public range of S3 endpoint IP addresses by using a host-based firewall.
- CRevoke the IAM role's active session permissions. Update the S3 bucket policy to deny access to
- DDisable the current key. Create a new KMS key that the IAM role does not have access to, and
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