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Recommend OIDC for AWS

Thiago Figueiró requested to merge doc-mention-oidc-aws into master

What does this MR do and why?

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_deployment/#authenticate-gitlab-with-aws instructs users to create an IAM user. A more secure option is to use OIDC.

This MR recommends the more secure option.

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