devops+ai: 🔥Teaching Agentic Strands Agents to assume Cross-Account IAM Roles and Read AWS Resources🔥
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2025-11-12
The article explains how to teach Agentic Strands agents to assume cross-account AWS IAM roles so they can read resources (for example, to answer operational questions like which VMs are running high CPU or low on disk). It covers the motivation, high-level workflow (AssumeRole via STS), and practical/security considerations for enabling safe cross-account access by autonomous agents.