C2W2 Lab 1: There was an error creating the IAM resources needed for SSM connection

Course Q&A Data Engineering Source Systems, Data Ingestion, and Pipelines
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When I try to start the lab again and set up the Cloud9 environment, I am getting an error of:

There was an error creating the IAM resources needed for SSM connection.
You don’t have the permission required to perform this operation. Ask your administrator to give you permissions.
User: _____________ is not authorized to perform: iam:CreateRole on resource: ___________AWSCloud9SSMAccessRole because no identity-based policy allows the iam:CreateRole action

How do i fix this? I’ve tried signing out of the console and hitting Start Lab in the Vocareum again, but to no avail.

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I don’t know what the problem was, but it has somehow been solved.

Other things that didn’t work:

  • Logging out of AWS and then shutting down the browser, and then trying to start over.

What ended up working was to wait out the entire 2 hours, exit out of all the lab windows, close down the browser, and then start over. I have no idea why.

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Hi @Orb ,

That’s great that you were able to solve the issue on your own :smiley: AWS networking can be tricky. I believe the issue was that when creating the Cloud9 environment, you might have selected SSM rather than the correct SSH:

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For future labs, just make sure to double check that all Cloud9 configurations match what’s indicated in the instructions so that you don’t run into this error again.

Hope this helps!

Jess

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