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Explanation around Amazon ECS Task Role is not clear or incorrect.

raonitimo opened this issue · comments

The paragraph:

"Before you can use IAM roles for tasks, Amazon ECS needs permission to make calls to the AWS APIs on your behalf. These permissions are provided by the Amazon ECS Task Role."
https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-ecs-developer-guide/blob/master/doc_source/task_IAM_role.md

Reads like a circular dependency. It should be rewritten or removed altogether.