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💼 [ECS.4] ECS containers should run as non-privileged

  • ID: /frameworks/aws-fsbp-v1.0.0/ecs/04

Description

We recommend that you remove elevated privileges from your ECS task definitions. When the privilege parameter is true, the container is given elevated privileges on the host container instance (similar to the root user).

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