How do I remove a role from an EC2 instance?

Question

I launched an instance with an iam role

I now want to remove the role from the instance via powershell

I must be confused about the terminology here because I'm reading this doc and I don't see how to remove a role from an instance.

I want to run this command on the EC2 instance that the role will be removed from.

There can only be one role assigned to an instance so is there a way to dynamically get the iam role that has been assigned to an instance and remove it from the instance via the powershell api?

Answer 1

You can do that using AWS CLI (v1.11.46 or newer).

You can disassociate an IAM instance profile from a running or stopped instance using the disassociate-iam-instance-profile command.

See the disassociate-iam-instance-profile CLI command documentation for more details.