IAM Roles & EC2 Instance Profile - Connecting EC2 to DynamoDB | AWS in Action

Sometimes, some services (or: workloads running on some services) need access permissions to other AWS services. In this video, for example, a web server running on an EC2 instance must access DynamoDB tables.
IAM roles & EC2 instance profiles ensure that sufficient permissions are granted.

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Creating a new EC2 instance
02:12 Understanding the need for IAM roles & EC2 instance profiles
05:33 Creating a new IAM role & policy
09:17 Attaching the IAM role to the EC2 instance
10:18 Testing the web application & data creation
11:46 Cleanup

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