incompatibility with IAM roles assigned to EC2 instance

What:

Since access keys are not stored locally on the fs for an EC2 instance assigned an iam role, an alternative path is eneeded when problems arise on EC2 intances locatated @ Amazon Web Services itself.

A contingency logic branch should provide key age, etc statics on currently active keyset. If user choose to "up" the keyset and change it, this sh0uld w Applies: any OS on EC2