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Hardeep Singh
Asked: 2015-12-29 06:21:19 +0800 CST

Assigning name to IAM Role with cloudformation

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how can we set/assign name of any IAM role while creating an IAM role with cloudformation. Say i want to create an IAM role with name NewRole, using cloudformation script, but i cant find any parameter in resource declaration for IAM role, where we can define name of the IAM role to be created.

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  1. Best Answer

    Simply provide the RoleName (AWS docs) attribute on your role declaration.

    yaml:

    RoleLogicalId: Type: "AWS::IAM::Role" Properties: RoleName: String [...]

    Note that the documentation contains warnings and notes the consequences of using this attribute.

    p.s. @dsmsk80 was correct but this was changed.

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  2. IAM role name is not possible to set from CloudFormation template. But you know how it is formatted when the stack and related role resource is created:

    CFStackName-CFIAMRoleResourceName-RandomString

    CloudFormation AWS::IAM::Role resource documentation

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