• credentials are needed to access EC2 Auto Scaling 
  • credentials must have permissions to perform actions.
  • Can use Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • By default, new IAM user has no permissions to do anything.
  • To grant permissions, attach IAM policy to IAM users or groups that require permissions
  • Can also create own policies to specify allowed or denied actions and resources, also conditions for same

EC2 Auto Scaling service-linked roles types

  • default service-linked role for account, named AWSServiceRoleForAutoScaling. This role is automatically assigned to Auto Scaling groups unless you specify a different service-linked role.
  • A service-linked role with a custom suffix that you specify when you create role, for example, AWSServiceRoleForAutoScaling_mysuffix.
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