Containers deployed on top of Kubernetes sometimes requires easy access to AWS services. You have a few options to configure this. Most common is providing AWS access credentials to a particular pod or updating existing worker nodes IAM role with additional access rules. Pods in the AWS environment, by default, have the same access rules as underlying nodes. However, both solutions are a terrible practice, because there are projects that resolve this issue more elegantly. Two most popular are kube2iam ...
