What kind of services can utilize AWS IAM roles?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles are designed to provide secure access control to a variety of AWS services based on the principle of least privilege. When using IAM roles, you can define permissions that determine what actions are allowed for specific resources across different services.

This capability is not limited to any single type of service. Instead, any AWS service that requires permissions to perform actions or access resources can leverage IAM roles. For example, services like Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), and many others can assume roles to access other AWS resources or even to grant specific permissions that allow interaction with the AWS environment.

By using IAM roles, you can efficiently manage permissions without needing to store long-term credentials or manage access individually across services. This flexibility and security make IAM roles a fundamental aspect of Amazon Web Services' permission management system.