setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles

Configures EC2 instances to securely call AWS services by creating and attaching IAM roles via...

What this skill does for you

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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Who made it

Publisheraws

Repositoryagent-toolkit-for-aws

Installs5,300as of Sep 27, 2026

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Security evidence

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. What this means: the listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

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Socket (skills.sh mirror): Version unavailable. Scope: Not supplied by the mirrored record. Revision: not supplied. Raw findings: not supplied. Counted findings: Not supplied.

Snyk (skills.sh mirror): Version unavailable. Scope: Not supplied by the mirrored record. Revision: not supplied. Raw findings: not supplied. Counted findings: Not supplied.

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: dda61487cb4fa8b6dbc75ad4e27c2181adc9d058. Raw findings: 2. Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: dda61487cb4fa8b6dbc75ad4e27c2181adc9d058. Raw findings: 3. Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: dda61487cb4fa8b6dbc75ad4e27c2181adc9d058. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: dda61487cb4fa8b6dbc75ad4e27c2181adc9d058
Package hash: sha256:4d97e00f256ff2595dff900c8e8d5b77a6af028114fb238634c6d9b71b393746
Licence: Apache-2.0