Better security with Grafana Assume Role for AWS data sources
GAUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
We’re excited to announce AWS Grafana Assume Role support across Grafana’s AWS data sources, now generally available in Grafana Cloud. Instead of configuring long-lived AWS access keys and secrets in each data source, you can now authenticate using IAM role assumption.
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