document role aws auth role name casing (#7356)

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### Parameters
- `role` `(string: <required>)` - Name of the role.
- `role` `(string: <required>)` - Name of the role. Vault normalizes all role
names to lower case. If you create two roles, "Web-Workers" and "WEB-WORKERS",
they will both be normalized to "web-workers" and will be regarded as the same role.
This is to prevent unexpected behavior due to casing differences. At all points,
Vault can be provided the role in any casing, and it will internally handle
sending it to lower case and seeking it inside its storage engine.
- `auth_type` `(string: "iam")` - The auth type permitted for this role. Valid
choices are "ec2" or "iam". If no value is specified, then it will default to
"iam" (except for legacy `aws-ec2` auth types, for which it will default to