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: The AWS root user has total control over every resource in the account.

: This part of the string indicates the protocol or scheme being used. In the context of templating and configuration files, template suggests that the path that follows is part of a template or a configuration directive. -template-..-2F..-2F..-2F..-2Froot-2F.aws-2Fcredentials

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: By repeating this sequence (e.g., five times), the attacker attempts to reach the "root" directory of the server, regardless of how deep the application is buried in the file structure. Replace every instance of -2F with / :

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Attackers scan for access to Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon RDS databases, or DynamoDB tables to download customer data, intellectual property, and proprietary source code. Here is a story illustrating how such a

: The private secret used to sign programmatic requests.

.. tells the operating system's file system to move up one directory level. / separates the directories.