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Implement Security by Using an IAM Role

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Part of AWS Technical Essentials TE.2 Topic: AWS

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What you'll do

In this challenge, you will create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you will use to access an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket from an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance.

  1. Create an Amazon S3 bucket to store objects
  2. Create a role to provide access to the bucket from an EC2 instance
  3. Create an IAM policy that provides full control of the bucket
  4. Assign the policy to the role
  5. Create a new EC2 instance that will use the role
  6. Sign in to the EC2 instance and test the role

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