Using IAM Roles with Amazon EC2 Instances

An IAM role is an IAM identity that we can create in your account that has specific permissions, it is an AWS identity with permission policies that determine what the identity can and cannot do in AWS.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity
Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware upfront
Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage.

Lab
Create IAM User
Create IAM Role
Launch EC2
Assign an existing IAM role to an EC2 instance
Use AWS EC2 Instance Connect

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