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Re:AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Crede... by phamilton on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:35PM (#16759382)
This is exactly how things already work on EC2.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-role...

TL;DR;

    curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/s3access
will get you the credentials for s3 access if you define a role named s3access and grant that role the associated permissions.
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