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assume-role from CLI
What is a VPC: your own private network inside one AWS Region, example ThreeTierVpc 10.0.0.0/16.
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Why do we need it?
Admin rights for 15 minutes are safer than forever.
What is it?
assume-role returns AccessKeyId, Secret and SessionToken.
ASIA... = temporary
How to do it
Export all three, then get-caller-identity.
Example
Unset the three variables to go back.