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Configures EC2 instances to securely call AWS services by creating and attaching IAM roles via instance profiles, eliminating hardcoded credentials. Use when an EC2 instance needs permissions to access AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, SQS, or CloudWatch through temporary credentials.

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# Setting Up EC2 Instance Profiles

## Overview

Domain expertise for granting EC2 instances secure access to AWS services using IAM roles
and instance profiles. Covers the full lifecycle: identifying required permissions, creating
or reusing IAM roles with least-privilege policies, creating instance profiles, attaching
them to EC2 instances, and verifying credential availability.

## Configure an EC2 instance profile

To set up an IAM role and instance profile for an EC2 instance, follow the procedure exactly.
See [EC2 instance profile setup procedure](references/ec2-instance-profile-setup.md).