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instance_profile

Gets or updates an individual instance_profile resource, use instance_profiles to retrieve a list of resources or to create or delete a resource.

Overview

Nameinstance_profile
TypeResource
DescriptionCreates a new instance profile. For information about instance profiles, see [Using instance profiles](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2_instance-profiles.html).<br/> For information about the number of instance profiles you can create, see [object quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_iam-quotas.html) in the *User Guide*.
Idaws.iam.instance_profile

Fields

NameDatatypeDescription
pathstringThe path to the instance profile. For more information about paths, see [IAM Identifiers](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.<br/> This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/).<br/> This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of either a forward slash (/) by itself or a string that must begin and end with forward slashes. In addition, it can contain any ASCII character from the ! (\u0021) through the DEL character (\u007F), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters.
rolesarrayThe name of the role to associate with the instance profile. Only one role can be assigned to an EC2 instance at a time, and all applications on the instance share the same role and permissions.
instance_profile_namestringThe name of the instance profile to create.<br/> This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-
arnstring
regionstringAWS region.

Methods

NameAccessible byRequired Params
update_resourceUPDATEdata__Identifier, data__PatchDocument, region
get_resourceSELECTdata__Identifier, region

SELECT Example

SELECT
region,
path,
roles,
instance_profile_name,
arn
FROM aws.iam.instance_profile
WHERE data__Identifier = '<InstanceProfileName>';

Permissions

To operate on the instance_profile resource, the following permissions are required:

Read

iam:GetInstanceProfile

Update

iam:PassRole,
iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile,
iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile,
iam:GetInstanceProfile