Can attackers undo your containment actions before they take effect? AWS IAM's eventual consistency creates a roughly 4-second window where policy changes haven't fully propagated. An attacker monitoring for containment can detect a deny-all policy and delete it before enforcement kicks in.

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IAM Persistence through Eventual Consistency - Hacking The Cloud

Abuse IAM's eventual consistency to maintain persistence against incident response containment.