Don't worry that I'm leaking some credentials, because these are example values (look carefully and see the letters E-X-A-M-P-L-E salted into the tokens), and in any case I would have revoked the credentials before publishing them openly.
This file contains the security tokens for your account, and should be carefully stashed somewhere. You'll also be able to download a CSV file containing the access keys, which looks like this: $ cat ~/Downloads/accessKeys.csvĪKIAEKX7AHMBPWLKEU7 H, 41WEtXEAaMPPfLLE1C5CEQXLA2MSP2LfEVGJKU2A These are the access credentials for the account you're currently logged in as. When you click on this, you'll be shown two security tokens, the Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key. There will be a button marked Create New Access Key. Once in the dashboard click on the Access Keys tab. The easiest way is via the Services dropdown at the top of the screen, because there's a direct link to that dashboard in that dropdown. When logged in either with a root account or IAM account, navigate to the My Security Credentials dashboard. The AWS CLI tool of course uses the AWS API under the covers, and therefore uses the access tokens for authentication. To make that association, one downloads an Access Keys file containing tokens for authenticating AWS API calls. Each AWS Profile is associated with either a root account or an IAM account.
Where this intersects with the AWS CLI is the concept of the AWS Profile. But the hows and wherefores of doing that is beyond the scope of this particular guide, which is focused on setting up AWS CLI.
This lets you assign specific permissions to each IAM account based on the needs of the project. The best practice is to create one or more IAM accounts for each project. Creating an IAM account is handled in the IAM dashboard, but doing so is fairly involved since you must create several things.ĪWS documentation on Identities (Users, Groups and Roles). To create a root account, go to the AWS website and sign up. The IAM account can be thought of as a sub-account, and is created after you create the root account. The root account is what's created when one signs up for an AWS account. In AWS there are two kinds of accounts: The root account, and an IAM account. Setting up the AWS CLI tool is fairly easy, but there are several considerations to ensuring it is correctly set up. It is recommended that you create an IAM account for each project, for security. To proceed with this guide, you must already have an AWS account. In this guide we'll discuss the AWS CLI version 2, which is the latest version at the time of writing.
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