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  • If someone can listen to your internal traffic (e.g. an attacker who who compromised an employee's machine), they see all data unencrypted. It's a bad idea to use plain text communication these days. Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 13:11
  • Does this answer your question? What are practical risks of http (not https) in server-to-server communications Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 13:12
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    I think that since the OP mentions that all components are withing the same AWS EC2 network, I think that makes it a different question than the linked one; and "employee's machine" because employees should absolutely not have a personal machine within a prod EC2 network. Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 13:41