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Challenge: IAM roles

Challenge: IAM roles - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Challenge: IAM roles

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] We now have a Linux server with the CloudWatch agent installed. However, the agent can't communicate with CloudWatch. With your understanding of identity and access management roles, it's time for another IAM challenge. The first step in this role challenge is to create a new role called Custom EC2 CloudWatch. The intent of this role is to allow EC2 to send metrics to CloudWatch. When creating this role, we'll need to attach the CloudWatch agent server policy, as well as the Amazon SSM Managed instance core policy. Finally, we need to attach the new role to an EC2 server.

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