IAM Errors when Creating Amazon EMR

There are errors related to the lack of permissions in the EMR_EC2_DefaultRole whenever I launch a Amazon EMR cluster. After some searching on the support forum, the default EMR role may not be created automatically for you. Hence, I removed the old default role and created new one as follows:

1. Create default role: 
• aws emr create-default-roles
2. Create instance profile: 
• aws iam create-instance-profile --instance-profile-name EMR_EC2_DefaultRole
3. Verify that instance profile exists but doesn't have any roles:
• aws iam get-instance-profile --instance-profile-name EMR_EC2_DefaultRole
4. Add the role using:
• aws iam add-role-to-instance-profile --instance-profile-name EMR_EC2_DefaultRole --role-name EMR_EC2_DefaultRole

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