Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Creating IAM Roles

As mentioned earlier, IAM roles are recommended if your application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. Creating an IAM role via the AWS console starts similar to creating an IAM user:

1. We first log in to the AWS console (aws.amazon.com)
2. We then select IAM from under the Security, Identity & Compliance category

From there, we will take a different path. This time, we click on Roles on the right-hand side, then select Create new role:

After selecting to create a new role, we will get treated with the role creation wizard. 

We first get asked to select a role type. For our case, we will need to select the EC2 Service role ...