IAM failed to create an EC2 role, no instance-profile ARN

Question

Hello,
I need to create a new EC2 role.
According to the document, create a new role from IAM, and select EC2 in the AWS service. After the role is created, there is no instance-profile ARN. 
The IAM user is an administrator user, with full access. Is there a problem?

Doc:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html

Leo K · Accepted Answer

I haven't created instance profiles via the console for a long time, but since you have your role already created, you can create an EC2 instance profile and attach it to the role you already created by launching CloudShell and running these commands. Replace "EC2RoleForMyServer" with the name of your role:
```
aws create-instance-profile --instance-profile-name EC2RoleForMyServer
aws add-role-to-instance-profile --instance-profile-name EC2RoleForMyServer --role-name EC2RoleForMyServer
```

jack · Answer

Thk, 
I tried to create an ec2 role again, this time, there was an instance profile.
Maybe the console has some problem at that time.

Sivaraman Selvam · Answer

Hello,

If you use the AWS Management Console to create a role for Amazon EC2, the console automatically creates an instance profile and gives it the same name as the role and the console does not create an instance profile for a role that is not associated with Amazon EC2.

To attach the created IAM role to an EC2 instance, follow this guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles-for-amazon-ec2.html#attach-iam-role

After you attach the IAM role to an EC2 instance can use the below command to list the instance profile 
> aws iam list-instance-profiles

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/list-instance-profiles.html

IAM failed to create an EC2 role, no instance-profile ARN

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