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How to configure assume roles for Amazon resources

How to configure assume roles for Amazon resources

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Configure assume role on the AWS console

Configure assume role on the AWS console

You can configure an user in an account to assume a role in another account and access specific resources that belong to the account.
A user in account
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 (account A) can assume a role in account
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 (account B) to access specific resources of account B.
Perform the following steps on the AWS console to configure an assume role when the IAM user and the IAM role are in different accounts:
  1. Log in to the
    AWS Console
    .
  2. Click
    Dashboard
     from the left panel. The
    AWS Service
     dashboard page appears.
  3. Click
    IAM
    . The
    Welcome to Identity and Access Management
     page appears.
  4. Click
    Users
     from the left panel.
    Create an IAM user and attach a policy to the IAM user.
    The following image shows the sample of configuring an assume role on the AWS console:
    Create an IAM user and attach a policy.
  5. Click
    Policies
     from the left panel.
    The
    Policies
     page appears.
    The following image shows a sample policy attached to the IAM user in account A:
    The image shows a sample poilcy attached to IAM user.
  6. Define an IAM role in account B. Click
    Roles
     from the left panel. Configure the policies for the IAM role that you configured when the IAM user and the IAM role were in the same account.
  7. Click
    Trust relationships
     tab to define the trust relationship within the AWS account.
    The following image shows that a user from account A is trusted to assume the role that you defined in account B:
    The image shows the user in account A trusted to assume the role defined in account B.
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