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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Kubernetes Settings
Kubernetes - Account and Access Control
Use Dedicated Service Accounts
Use Dedicated Service Accounts
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Use Dedicated Service Accounts
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Kubernetes workloads should not use cluster node service accounts to authenticate to Amazon EKS APIs. Each Kubernetes workload that needs to authenticate to other AWS services using AWS IAM should be provisioned with a dedicated Service account.