Update IAM settings for your Workspace

Cloud9 normally manages IAM credentials dynamically. This isn’t currently compatible with the some AWS services authentication, so we will disable it and rely on the IAM role instead.

  • Return to your workspace and click the gear icon (in top right corner), or click to open a new tab and choose “Open Preferences”
  • Select AWS SETTINGS
  • Turn off AWS managed temporary credentials
  • Close the Preferences tab c9disableiam

Let’s run the command below, the following actions will take place as we do that:

🔹 Install jq- jq is a command-line tool for parsing JSON

🔹 Ensure temporary credentials aren’t already in place.

🔹 Remove any existing credentials file.

🔹 Set the region to work with our desired region.

🔹 Validate that our IAM role is valid.

sudo yum -y install jq
rm -vf ${HOME}/.aws/credentials
export ACCOUNT_ID=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --output text --query Account)
export AWS_REGION=$(curl -s 169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | jq -r '.region')
test -n "$AWS_REGION" && echo AWS_REGION is "$AWS_REGION" || echo AWS_REGION is not set
echo "export ACCOUNT_ID=${ACCOUNT_ID}" | tee -a ~/.bash_profile
echo "export AWS_REGION=${AWS_REGION}" | 
tee -a ~/.bash_profile
aws configure set default.region ${AWS_REGION}
aws configure get default.region
aws sts get-caller-identity --query Arn | grep Datadog-Workshop-Admin -q && echo "IAM role valid" || echo "IAM role NOT valid"

If the IAM role is not valid, DO NOT PROCEED. Go back and confirm the steps on this page.