What is a Role-AWS Blog Info
A role is a set of permissions that grant access to actions and resources in AWS. These permissions are attached to the role, not to an IAM User or a group. An IAM User can use a role in the same AWS account or a different account. An IAM User is similar to an IAM User; role is also an AWS identity with permission policies that determine what the identity can and cannot do in AWS. A role is not uniquely associated with a single person; it can be used by anyone who needs it. A role does not have long term security credential, i.e., password or security key. Instead, if the user uses a role, temporarily security credentials are created and provided to the user. You can use the roles to delegate access to users, applications or services that generally do not have access to your AWS resources. Situations in which "IAM Roles" can be used: Sometimes you want to grant the users to access the AWS resources in your AWS account. Sometimes you want to grant the users to access the AWS r...