IAM roles for EC2 instances

IAM roles for EC2 instances (Jun 2012)

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html

• Only one role can be assigned to an Amazon EC2 instance at a time

• aws iam add-role-to-instance-profile
• aws iam create-instance-profile

Related

• ecsInstanceRole
• AWS EC2 Instance Connect
• Terraform resource aws ecs service: iam role
• AWS Authentication

See also

• AWS IAM role, AWS service roles, AWS IAM Roles Anywhere: [ list-roles | get-role | create-role | put-role-policy | create-service-linked-role | attach-role-policy | update-role | add-role-to-instance-profile ], aws ec2 describe-iam-instance-profile-associations ], IAM roles for EC2 instances, AWSServiceRoleForAutoScaling
• AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 API, aws ec2, AWS::EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, CPU credits, Instance type, EC2 limitations, 169.254.169.254, Instance metadata and user data (IMDS), InstanceType, InstanceId, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS EC2 Instance Connect, launch template, lifecycle, AWS Security group (SG), Amazon EC2 Recycle Bin, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, Global View

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/06/11/Announcing-IAM-Roles-for-EC2-instances/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2.html