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Roles In AWS

In this article, we will discuss roles in AWS.

Purpose

Roles are the permissions between the 2 services (For example an EC2 and S3).

How To Create A Role?

To create a role, go to the IAM module. In the IAM module, click on the Roles menu.

Picture showing the roles menu in IAM services module

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The roles screen appears on the right-hand side. Click on the Create role button.

Picture showing the create role button for creating a new role

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A screen appears, where you can select the source. For this article, we are selecting EC2.

Picture showing the source service on which role will be applied

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Click on the Next: Permissions button. In the next window, select permission. For this article, we are selecting AmazonS3FullAccess permission.

Picture showing adding the permission with the role

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Click on the Next: Tags button.

Picture showing adding the tag on the role

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This is an optional step. Click on the Next: Review button.

Picture showing the review screen of the create role screen

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On this screen, you can enter your Role name. Click on the Create role button to create the role.

Picture showing the new role created in the IAM services

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The role is created.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Sunday, September 19, 2021

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