AWS Security Cookbook

How to do it...

We can create an IAM role with access to S3 APIs as follows:

1. Go to the IAM dashboard.
2. Click on Roles from the left sidebar.
3. Click on Create role.
4. Select EC2 as the service that will use this role and click Next: Permissions.
5. Select AmazonS3FullAccess and click Next: Tags.
6. Optionally, add any tags and click Next: Review.
7. Give the role a name (for example, MyS3AccessRole) and click Create role.

We can associate the role with an EC2 instance as follows:

1. Go to the EC2 dashboard.
2. Click on Instances from the left sidebar.
3. Select our private instance, click on Actions, click on Instance Settings, and click on Attach/Replace IAM Role:

4. Select our new IAM role and click Apply:

We should get a success message.