Assigning name to IAM Role with cloudformation

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how can we set/assign name of any IAM role while creating an IAM role with cloudformation. Say i want to create an IAM role with name NewRole, using cloudformation script, but i cant find any parameter in resource declaration for IAM role, where we can define name of the IAM role to be created.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '16 at 20:20

Simply provide the RoleName (AWS docs) attribute on your role declaration.

yaml:

RoleLogicalId: Type: "AWS::IAM::Role" Properties: RoleName: String [...]

Note that the documentation contains warnings and notes the consequences of using this attribute.

p.s. @dsmsk80 was correct but this was changed.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '15 at 15:05

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IAM role name is not possible to set from CloudFormation template. But you know how it is formatted when the stack and related role resource is created:

CFStackName-CFIAMRoleResourceName-RandomString

CloudFormation AWS::IAM::Role resource documentation

answered Dec 28 '15 at 15:05

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can't we define IAM role name by defining Role ARN parameter ?.. – Hardeep Singh Dec 28 '15 at 18:29

Assigning name to IAM Role with cloudformation

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