If you use an AWS Instance Role that allows you to pull data from AWS Parameter Store, then you don’t have a bootstrap problem. In this case, AWS knows what yo

If you use an AWS Instance Role that allows you to pull data from AWS Parameter Store, then you don’t have a bootstrap problem. In this case, AWS knows what your instance is and what it is allowed to do, and so you can access SSM without any other credentials being stored on the system. But this only works if you’re running your EC2 instance in AWS.