Using an Instance Profile

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 Windows Instances: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html.

To configure authentication using an instance profile:

  1. To access authentication options, open the ODBC Data Source Administrator where you created the DSN, then select the DSN, then click Configure, and then click Authentication Options.
  2. From the Authentication Type drop-down list, select Instance Profile.
  3. To save your settings and close the Authentication Options dialog box, click OK.

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