An Application Is Running on an Amazon EC2 Instance

question 662

Multiple Choice

An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. A SysOps Administrator is tasked with allowing the application access to an Amazon S3 bucket. What should be done to ensure optimal security?

• A) Apply an S3 bucket policy to allow access from all EC2 instances.
• B) Create an IAM user and create a script to inject the credentials on boot.
• C) Create and assign an IAM role for Amazon S3 access to the EC2 instance.
• D) Embed an AWS credentials file for an IAM user inside the Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

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