An Application Running on Amazon EC2 Needs Login Credentials to Access

question 364

Multiple Choice

An application running on Amazon EC2 needs login credentials to access a database. The login credentials are stored in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as secure string parameters. What is the MOST secure way to grant the application access to the credentials?

• A) Create an IAM EC2 role for the EC2 instances and grant the role permission to read the Systems Manager parameters
• B) Create an IAM group for the application and grant the group permissions to read the Systems Manager parameters
• C) Create an IAM policy for the application and grant the policy permission to read the Systems Manager parameters
• D) Create an IAM user for the application and grant the user permission to read the Systems Manager parameters

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