An introduction to Amazon EC2 credentials When you assign an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, the short-term credentials for the role are made available via a web service known as the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). The IMDS provides an HTTP endpoint for retrieving instance metadata such as the instance IP address, AWS Region the instance is running in, the Amazon Machine Image used to launch the instance, and the access key, secre...| packetmischief.ca
A colleague of mine recently quiped, "'The perimeter' in AWS is actually defined by Identity and Access Management (IAM)." After some reflection, I think my colleague is spot on.| packetmischief.ca
Here's a simple scenario: you have some Virtual Machines (VMs) in your on-premises environment, likely in VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V. You want to either fully migrate some or all of those VMs to the AWS Cloud or you want to copy a gold image to the AWS Cloud so you can launch compute instances from that image. Simple enough. Now, how do you do it? Can you just export an OVA of the VM, copy it up, and then boot it? Can you somehow import the VMDK files that hold the VM's virtual drive...| packetmischief.ca