# Can i use IAM role as credentials?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-iam-role-as-credentials/214369>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 9, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-iam-role-as-credentials/214369 "2020-01-09T08:32:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Samerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Samerd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samerd)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-iam-role-as-credentials/214369/1 "2020-01-09T08:32:10Z")

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Hi ,

Can we use **IAM role** instead of AWS credentials (without Access key and Secret Key that we use in metricbeat config file and without AWS token) ?

thanks

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-iam-role-as-credentials/214369/2 "2020-01-13T18:02:34Z")

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Hi @Samerd, [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/12464](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/12464) is this what you are looking for?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-iam-role-as-credentials/214369/3 "2020-02-10T18:02:36Z")

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