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S3 And Impacts of Using an IAM Role Instead of an IAM User

Thomas H Jones II on October 02, 2018

I work for a group that manages a number of AWS accounts. To keep things somewhat simpler from a user-management perspective, we use IAM roles (tie...
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C Turner

Interesting. So then, assigning expiration time is basically a moot point?

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Thomas H Jones II

Unless your goal is to set the expiry to shorter than your session's expiry, then, essentially, "yes".