How to change an IAM role session duration

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created an IAM role in AWS. Now I want to change an IAM role session duration from the command line. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can update the IAM role from the AWS CLI. The following update-role command changes the description of the IAM role production-role to the Main production role and sets the maximum session duration to 12 hours.

$ aws iam update-role --role-name production-role --description 'Main production role' --max-session-duration 43200