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extract temporary aws keys
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temp_aws_key.sh
#!/bin/bash
# requires http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
AWS_ROLE_NAME=`wget -O - -q 'http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/'`
wget -O mycreds -q "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/$AWS_ROLE_NAME"
SECRET_KEY=`jq -r '.SecretAccessKey' <mycreds`
ACCESS_KEY=`jq -r '.AccessKeyId' <mycreds`
TOKEN=`jq -r '.Token' <mycreds`
cat >temp_credentials <<EOM
AWSAccessKeyId=$ACCESS_KEY
AWSSecretKey=$SECRET_KEY
SecurityToken=$TOKEN
EOM
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