AWS S3 Bucket Access from EC2

Question

I need to fire up an S3 bucket so my EC2 instances have access to store image files to it. The EC2 instances need read/write permissions. I do not want to make the S3 bucket

Answer 1

This can be done very simply. Follow the following steps:

• Open the AWS EC2 on console.
• Select the instance and navigate to actions.
• Select instances settings and select Attach/Replace IAM Role
• Create a new role and attach S3FullAccess policy to that role.

When this is done, connect to the AWS instance and the rest will be done via the following CLI commands:

• aws s3 cp filelocation/filename s3://bucketname

Please note... the file location refers to the local address. And the bucketname is the name of your bucket. Also note: This is possible if your instance and S3 bucket are in the same account. Cheers.