Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Merge pull request #6500 from hashicorp/radeksimko-patch-1
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
aws: Update docs after #6385 (account ID via sts)
  • Loading branch information
radeksimko committed May 5, 2016
2 parents 069636a + d23fac3 commit 03bc54b
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 3 deletions.
9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions website/source/docs/providers/aws/index.html.markdown
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -182,13 +182,16 @@ in order to compare it with allowed/forbidden ones.
Approaches differ per auth providers:

* EC2 instance w/ IAM Instance Profile - [Metadata API](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html)
is always used
is always used. Introduced in Terraform `0.6.16`.
* All other providers (ENV vars, shared creds file, ...)
will try two approaches in the following order
* `iam:GetUser` - typically useful for IAM Users. It also means
that each user needs to be privileged to call `iam:GetUser` for themselves.
* `sts:GetCallerIdentity` - _Should_ work for both IAM Users and federated IAM Roles,
introduced in Terraform `0.6.16`.
* `iam:ListRoles` - this is specifically useful for IdP-federated profiles
which cannot use `iam:GetUser`. It also means that each federated user
need to be _assuming_ an IAM role which allows `iam:ListRoles`.
There is currently no better clean way to get account ID
out of the API when using federated account unfortunately.
Used in Terraform `0.6.16+`.
There used to be no better way to get account ID out of the API
when using federated account until `sts:GetCallerIdentity` was introduced.

0 comments on commit 03bc54b

Please sign in to comment.