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IAM profiles can't be used by discovery-ec2 plugin #21039

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Elasticsearch version: 5.0.0 (e02a480)
Plugins installed: discovery-ec2

I tested with elasticsearch 2.4 and 5.0.
I can confirm the regression in 5.0. It works fine with 2.4.

The problem is that even with all traces on, it's hard to understand what is happening. My guess is that the security manager

[2016-10-20T12:41:49,925][DEBUG][c.a.a.AWSCredentialsProviderChain] Unable to load credentials from EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider: Unable to load AWS credentials from environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID (or AWS_ACCESS_KEY) and AWS_SECRET_KEY (or AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY))
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,926][DEBUG][c.a.a.AWSCredentialsProviderChain] Unable to load credentials from SystemPropertiesCredentialsProvider: Unable to load AWS credentials from Java system properties (aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey)
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,926][DEBUG][c.a.a.AWSCredentialsProviderChain] Unable to load credentials from com.amazonaws.auth.profile.ProfileCredentialsProvider@1ad14091: access denied ("java.io.FilePermission" "/home/ubuntu/.aws/credentials" "read")
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,927][DEBUG][c.a.i.EC2MetadataClient  ] Connecting to EC2 instance metadata service at URL: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,951][DEBUG][c.a.i.EC2MetadataClient  ] Connecting to EC2 instance metadata service at URL: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/discovery-tests
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,965][DEBUG][c.a.a.AWSCredentialsProviderChain] Unable to load credentials from InstanceProfileCredentialsProvider: Unable to parse Json String.
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,966][INFO ][o.e.d.e.AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider] [dJfktmE] Exception while retrieving instance list from AWS API: Unable to load AWS credentials from any provider in the chain
[2016-10-20T12:41:49,967][DEBUG][o.e.d.e.AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider] [dJfktmE] Full exception:
com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException: Unable to load AWS credentials from any provider in the chain
    at com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProviderChain.getCredentials(AWSCredentialsProviderChain.java:131) ~[aws-java-sdk-core-1.10.69.jar:?]
    at com.amazonaws.services.ec2.AmazonEC2Client.invoke(AmazonEC2Client.java:11117) ~[aws-java-sdk-ec2-1.10.69.jar:?]
    at com.amazonaws.services.ec2.AmazonEC2Client.describeInstances(AmazonEC2Client.java:5403) ~[aws-java-sdk-ec2-1.10.69.jar:?]
    at org.elasticsearch.discovery.ec2.AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider.fetchDynamicNodes(AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider.java:116) [discovery-ec2-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.discovery.ec2.AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider$DiscoNodesCache.refresh(AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider.java:234) [discovery-ec2-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.discovery.ec2.AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider$DiscoNodesCache.refresh(AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider.java:219) [discovery-ec2-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.common.util.SingleObjectCache.getOrRefresh(SingleObjectCache.java:54) [elasticsearch-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.discovery.ec2.AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider.buildDynamicNodes(AwsEc2UnicastHostsProvider.java:102) [discovery-ec2-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ping.unicast.UnicastZenPing.sendPings(UnicastZenPing.java:358) [elasticsearch-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ping.unicast.UnicastZenPing$1.doRun(UnicastZenPing.java:272) [elasticsearch-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:504) [elasticsearch-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-5.0.0.jar:5.0.0]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [?:1.8.0_91]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [?:1.8.0_91]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_91]

The only thing we can see is Unable to parse Json String. which indicates to me the same kind of error @tlrx have seen previously for repository-s3 plugin.

AWS team is telling us something in another issue we have with their latest versions of their SDK: aws/aws-sdk-java#788:

Okay I was able to reproduce this problem. I don't know if there is a fix for it though, Jackson relies heavily on the ability to access declared fields. Could you grant the SDK access to this permission in your security policy?

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