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Revan
Revan

Reputation: 11

AWS IAM role creation via Windows CLI

I'm currently working on an AWS course, and have been using the Windows CLI in order to setup demo infrastructure in my AWS VPC. I was attempting to create a role called "bastion-role" via using the following command:

aws iam create-role --role-name bastion-role --assume-role-policy-document file://role-policy.json

but it yields this error:

Error parsing parameter --assume-role-policy-document: Unable to load paramfile file://role-policy.json: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'role-policy.json'

I'm assuming it's having a problem referencing the local directory that I'm currently in. I've attempted the following troubleshooting measures:

Unfortunately, none of these combinations have worked. I'm assuming I'm missing something, but I can't figure it out. If someone could shed some light on this problem, I'd appreciate it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1781

Answers (1)

Pavel Nuñez Deschamps
Pavel Nuñez Deschamps

Reputation: 59

Probably its too late to provide this answer, but the right way to execute this command is like this:

aws iam --region us-east-2 create-role --role-name <YOUR_ROLE_NAME> --assume-role-policy-document file://C:\Users\<USERNAME>\FULL\PATH\TO\file_containing_policy.json

After successful execution you should see something like this:

{
    "Role": {
        "Path": "/",
        "RoleName": "YOUR_ROLE_NAME",
        "RoleId": "AROXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
        "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXX:role/YOUR_ROLE_NAME",
        "CreateDate": "2020-11-17T04:53:35+00:00",
        "AssumeRolePolicyDocument": {
            "Version": "2012-10-17",
            "Statement": [
                {
                    "Sid": "",
                    "Effect": "Allow",
                    "Principal": {
                        "Service": "<SERVICE>.amazonaws.com"
                    },
                    "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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