Configures EC2 instances to securely call AWS services by creating and attaching IAM roles via instance profiles, eliminating hardcoded credentials. Use when an EC2 instance needs permissions to access AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, SQS, or CloudWatch through temporary credentials.
Install
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setting-up-ec2-instance-profilesnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles -a claude-code -gnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git --path skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/setting-up-ec2-instance-profilesgh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws setting-up-ec2-instance-profilesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles ~/.claude/skills/setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles ~/.agents/skills/setting-up-ec2-instance-profiles # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode