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ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation

Replaces an IAM instance profile for the specified running instance. You can use this action to change the IAM instance profile that's associated with an instance without having to disassociate the existing IAM instance profile first.

Use DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations to get the association ID.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

AssociationId

The ID of the existing IAM instance profile association.

Type: String

Required: Yes

IamInstanceProfile

The IAM instance profile.

Type: IamInstanceProfileSpecification object

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

iamInstanceProfileAssociation

Information about the IAM instance profile association.

Type: IamInstanceProfileAssociation object

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example

This example replaces the IAM instance profile represented by the association iip-assoc-060bae234aac2e7fa with the IAM instance profile named AdminProfile.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation &AssociationId=iip-assoc-060bae234aac2e7fa &IamInstanceProfile.Name=AdminProfile &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociationResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/"> <requestId>ba40aa4c-d788-4f24-8a34-example</requestId> <iamInstanceProfileAssociation> <associationId>iip-assoc-08049da59357d598c</associationId> <iamInstanceProfile> <arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:instance-profile/AdminRole</arn> <id>AIPAI5IVIHMFFYY2DKV5Y</id> </iamInstanceProfile> <instanceId>i-1234567890abcdef0</instanceId> <state>associating</state> </iamInstanceProfileAssociation> </ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociationResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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