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  1. Login to the instance you want the access credentials for
  2. run curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/
  3. Get the name of the role returned by this endpoint, and append it to the end: curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ROLE_NAME/
  4. The response will include the access key, security key and session token
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