This entry was posted in Cyberduck and tagged aws, ec2, iam, s3. We think this will make deployments of the duck to EC2 a lot easier without the need to distribute credentials along with. Make sure to edit the role name in the profile to match your IAM configuration. See Connecting with temporary access credentials from EC2. Im struggling to get a simple test of the cyberduck cli working from my computer to rackspace.

The S3 (Temporary Credentials) profile can be installed from the wiki.

We have now added a login option to the current snapshot builds of 4.7 available through a connection profile that allows to connect from EC2 with Cyberduck on Windows or the CLI version on Linux instances with IAM role credentials obtained from instance metadata. Choose S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) from the dropdown menu: 4. Open Cyberduck and click the 'Open Connection' button in the top-left: 3. This enables you to use security credentials on EC2 to access S3 that are temporary and rotated automatically. Download Cyberduck (for Windows or Mac) and install it on your computer. When you are launching an EC2 instance you can assign it with an IAM role with specific permissions to AWS resources. Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2. This is a technical post for users that are familiar with AWS EC2.

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