AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate IamInstanceProfile

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Specifies an IAM instance profile, which is a container for an IAM role for your instance. You can use an IAM role to distribute your AWS credentials to your instances.

If you are creating the launch template for use with an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group, you can specify either the name or the ARN of the instance profile, but not both.

IamInstanceProfile is a property of AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate LaunchTemplateData.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Arn" : String,
  "Name" : String
}

YAML

  Arn: String
  Name: String

Properties

Arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the instance profile.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

Name

The name of the instance profile.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

See also

• LaunchTemplateIamInstanceProfileSpecificationRequest in the Amazon EC2 API Reference

• Create a launch template using advanced settings in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide