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Amazon GameLift Streams now supports IAM role credentials for stream sessions

calendar_today July 17, 2026 person aws@amazon.com domain amazon-q

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports assigning an IAM role to a stream session, enabling your application to securely access resources in your AWS account, such as Amazon S3 buckets and DynamoDB tables. With this launch, you can pass a RoleArn parameter when starting a stream session, and your application automatically receives short-lived, auto-refreshing AWS credentials through the standard AWS SDK credential resolution chain — no application code changes required. Previously, customers who needed their streamed applications to access AWS services had to embed long-lived access keys in appli

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