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Troubleshooting an IAM Policy on an EC2 Instance
In this lab you will be taking on the role of a cloud engineer. You come to realize your EC2 instance is unable to get items from your S3 bucket. All of the network settings appear to be correct, so you need to determine how to give your EC2 instance permission to access the S3 bucket.
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Challenge
Upload an object to the S3 bucket.
Navigate to the S3 service and upload a small text file to the S3 bucket.
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Challenge
Connect to the EC2 instance and attempt to get the object
Use Instance Connect to connect to the EC2 Instance, and attemt to use the
get-objectcommand to retrieve the object. -
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Edit the instance’s IAM Policy to allow access to the S3 Bucket
From the EC2 service, navigate to the IAM Role that is attached to the EC2 instace. Add a permissions policy that enables the EC2 instance to get objects from the S3 bucket.
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Challenge
Connect to the EC2 instance to verify the new permissions
Use Instance Connect to retry the
get-objectcommand.
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