# ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation
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Replaces an IAM instance profile for the specified running instance. You can use this action to change the IAM instance profile that's associated with an instance without having to disassociate the existing IAM instance profile first.

Use [DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations](API_DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations.md) to get the association ID.

## Request Parameters
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The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Query Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 **AssociationId**   
The ID of the existing IAM instance profile association.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

 **IamInstanceProfile**   
The IAM instance profile.  
Type: [IamInstanceProfileSpecification](API_IamInstanceProfileSpecification.md) object  
Required: Yes

## Response Elements
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The following elements are returned by the service.

 **iamInstanceProfileAssociation**   
Information about the IAM instance profile association.  
Type: [IamInstanceProfileAssociation](API_IamInstanceProfileAssociation.md) object

 **requestId**   
The ID of the request.  
Type: String

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common client error codes](errors-overview.md#CommonErrors).

## Examples
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### Example
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This example replaces the IAM instance profile represented by the association `iip-assoc-060bae234aac2e7fa` with the IAM instance profile named `AdminProfile`.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation
&AssociationId=iip-assoc-060bae234aac2e7fa
&IamInstanceProfile.Name=AdminProfile
&AUTHPARAMS
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociationResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
    <requestId>ba40aa4c-d788-4f24-8a34-example</requestId>
    <iamInstanceProfileAssociation>
        <associationId>iip-assoc-08049da59357d598c</associationId>
        <iamInstanceProfile>
            <arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:instance-profile/AdminRole</arn>
            <id>AIPAI5IVIHMFFYY2DKV5Y</id>
        </iamInstanceProfile>
        <instanceId>i-1234567890abcdef0</instanceId>
        <state>associating</state>
    </iamInstanceProfileAssociation>
</ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociationResponse>
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following:
+  [Amazon Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/cli2/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/DotNetSDKV4/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Go v2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForGoV2/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForKotlin/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForPHPV3/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Python](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/ec2-2016-11-15/ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation)