Using an Instance Profile

Note:

Because Amazon EC2 instances are not available for macOS at this time, the macOS version of the Simba Athena ODBC Driver cannot use this authentication method.

You can configure the connector to authenticate the connection using credentials that have been loaded from the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service into an instance profile.

Instance profiles contain authorization information such as roles, permissions, and credentials, and are automatically created by Amazon EC2 for each IAM role that is defined for an EC2 instance. For more information, see "IAM Roles for Amazon EC2" in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux Instances: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html.

To configure authentication using an instance profile:

Set the AuthenticationType property to Instance Profile.

Security and Authentication
Authentication Driver Configuration Options
Configuring Authentication