Atlassian security analysts demonstrated how to detect security breaches by using Amazon Web Services keys as honey tokens to lure cybercriminals. The keys are valuable to attackers and interesting for a few reasons, they say. An AWS access key is like a scratch-off lottery ticket. If the attacker wins, they gain control over someone’s infrastructure. If they lose, the key is simply an information disclosure vector that gives them more chances to win. These keys could potentially grant hackers a lot of power or grant them nothing.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/hunting-cybercriminals-with-aws-honey-tokens