Overview In the cloud, your infrastructure may be short-lived, but an attacker’s persistence doesn't have to be. While your environment scales and changes in seconds, adversaries are embedding themselves into your IAM policies, Lambda functions, and federated sessions, creating invisible footholds that survive long after you believe an incident is closed. Persistence in AWS is not just a technical oversight; it is a fundamental business risk. If you cannot see how an attacker has rooted themselv