Fwd: AWS Cross Account Roles

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Paul, it would be interesting to see a proposal on how you'd like it to
work.

Mark

On 03/03/16 21:36, John Meinel wrote:
> At the moment I don't believe we do. We just use your access key and secret
> key to identify you to EC2 when we make requests. We don't support using
> temporary credentials via Assume role
> For those of us wanting to know more here is AWS page
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_create_for-user_externalid.html
>
> The big internal technical limitation is that AssumeRole based access needs
> to be refreshed periodically (the temporary keys are good for at most 1
> hour).