Action: sts:AssumeRole (aws iam role)

sts:AssumeRole

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 {
 "Version": "2012-10-17",
 "Statement": [
   {
     "Sid": "",
     "Effect": "Allow",
     "Principal": {
       "Service": "ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com"
     },
     "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
   }
 ]
}

 resource "aws_iam_role" "ecs_task_role" {
 name               = "your-ecs-task-role"
 assume_role_policy = <<-EOF
 {
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [
     {
       "Sid": "",
       "Effect": "Allow",
       "Principal": {
         "Service": "ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com"
       },
       "Action": [
         "sts:AssumeRole"
       ]
     }
   ]
 }
 EOF
}

Related

• aws sts assume-role
• aws iam add-role-to-instance-profile
• Amazon Cloudformation EKS cluster role
• An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the AssumeRole operation:
• aws sts get-caller-identity
• sts:
• aws ssm put-parameter
• aws iam list-instance-profiles
• Terraform resource: aws_iam_role

See also

• AWS STS (sts:), aws sts [ get-session-token | get-caller-identity | assume-role | assume-role-with-web-identity | assume-role-with-saml | get-access-key-info ]