cloudyr/aws.iam

IAM Roles (Instance Metadata Service)

dolendupes opened this issue · 2 comments

dolendupes commented

For authentication, is it possible to use the instance metadata service on an Amazon EC2 instance that has an IAM role configured? It would be nice to leverage the facility in Amazon for managing credentials, rather than having to manually configure the environment/code.

leeper commented

Yes, this is forthcoming in the aws.signature package but is not yet on CRAN. You can also access that metadata using the aws.ec2metadata in the meantime.

dolendupes commented

Thanks. Look forward to when this feature is added.