Iam Roles — AWS Solutions Architect Associate Practice Questions
IAM roles are AWS Identity and Access Management entities that define a set of permissions and can be assumed by trusted principals such as AWS services, EC2 instances, Lambda functions, or external identities via federation. The Solutions Architect Associate exam consistently tests IAM roles as the correct mechanism for granting AWS services access to other AWS resources, in preference to embedding long-term access keys. Roles use short-lived, automatically rotated credentials, which reduces the risk of credential exposure. Understanding trust policies (who can assume the role) versus permission policies (what the role can do) is essential for answering IAM scenario questions correctly.
Free questions on iam roles
A company requires its EC2 instances to access S3 without using access keys. What is the recommended approach?
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