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Assume Role with AWSCLI

2016-05-19 Discuss

If you have either static or instance profile credentials that grant you STS permissions, then you can gather a set of time-limited role credentials as follows:

```

!/bin/bash

TEST_CREDENTIALS=$( \ aws sts assume-role \ --role-arn arn:aws:iam::$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID_1:role/$ROLE_NAME \ --role-session-name $USER \ |jq '.Credentials' )

PROD_CREDENTIALS=$( \ aws sts assume-role \ --role-arn arn:aws:iam::$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID_2:role/$ROLE_NAME \ --role-session-name $USER \ |jq '.Credentials' )

cat >>$HOME/.aws/credentials <