# Allow use of AWS EC2 IAM roles with S3 file/image uploads

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**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [7월 4, 2014, 3:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-use-of-aws-ec2-iam-roles-with-s3-file-image-uploads/17197 "2014-07-04T03:54:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2월 20, 2017, 6:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-use-of-aws-ec2-iam-roles-with-s3-file-image-uploads/17197/9 "2017-02-20T18:55:08Z")

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Putting a #pr-welcome on this in case anyone wants to try bringing this feature back provided they don’t also bring back a swarm of bloated dependencies.

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