If you need to get the IAM Role information from the attached EC2 role directly, you can do the following:
IAM_ROLE=$(curl -s 169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/info | \
jq -r '.InstanceProfileArn' | cut -d'/' -f2)
How to Get the Instance Profile attached to an AWS EC2
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