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ali haider
Asked: 2016-08-28 10:30:03 +0800 CST

unable to create keypair in amazon aws

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I added a user to a group in amazon AWS. The user has the privilege of adding EC2 instances but does not appear to have the privilege of creating a keypair - the request is getting denied. Any idea on what privilege needs to be added to enable this feature for the new user?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The specific IAM permission required is ec2:ImportKeyPair.

    {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1472323724000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:ImportKeyPair"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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  2. I was missing the administrator policy for the user. Once added in AWS, the new user could then import keypair or generate a new one. Hope this helps.

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