Introduction Following the release of Amazon Bedrock Powered by AWS Mantle, I discovered a mechanism to bypass Service Control Policy (SCP) statements limiting the use of bedrock-mantle IAM permissions. By leveraging long-lived API keys backed by Service Specific Credentials, I was able to successfully leverage bedrock-mantle:CreateInference despite an SCP statement denying that action. SCPs are…
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