Lock the Glove Compartment! How to Secure IMDS in the Cloud Without Boring Yourself to Sleep Picture this: You just bought a shiny new car. It's got all the tech, all the power, and yes — even a glove compartment stocked with important stuff. Maybe your wallet, some emergency cash, spare keys, and your registration papers. Handy, right? Now imagine leaving that glove compartment unlocked, all the time. Worse, anyone sitting in the car (even hitchhikers or thieves) can just pop it open and grab whatever they want. That’s kind of what happens in the cloud if you don’t secure your Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). Image generated by AI with Microsoft Copilot. What is IMDS (Without the Jargon)? In cloud platforms like AWS, IMDS is like that glove compartment, it holds important metadata and temporary credentials that your virtual machines (EC2 instances, for example) need to do their job. Think: access to storage, logging systems, other cloud services, and more. It’s powerful, useful...