> You can assign multiple IAM roles to an instance profile, which is what is associated with an instance. Perhaps there is some contradiction in the IAM docs,

> You can assign multiple IAM roles to an instance profile, which is what is associated with an instance. Perhaps there is some contradiction in the IAM docs, but I couldn't find that reference. This seems to indicate that only one role can be assigned to an instance profile: "Note that only one role can be assigned to an Amazon EC2 at a time, and all applications on the instance share the same role and permissions." (first paragraph, last sentence) http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/roles-usingrole-ec2instance.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/roles-usingr...