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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 4: Identity and Access Management

Workload identity outside AWS: IAM Roles Anywhere, OIDC federation for CI/CD pipelines, and EKS Pod Identity

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Last reviewed September 29, 2026 · Leer en español

Long-term access keys on servers and in pipelines are among the most common causes of breaches. AWS offers ways for workloads outside AWS, and workloads in Kubernetes, to get short-term credentials instead.

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