iam:PassRole is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permission that allows an IAM principal to delegate or pass permissions to an AWS service by configuring a resource such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance or AWS Lambda function with an IAM role. The service …

November 3, 2022: We updated this post to fix some syntax errors in the policy statements and to add additional use cases. August 30, 2021: This post is currently being updated. We will post another note when it’s complete. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles are a …