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GetSessionToken
if you want to use MFA to protect programmatic
calls to specific AWS APIs like Amazon EC2 StopInstances
. MFA-enabled
IAM users would need to call GetSessionToken
and submit an MFA code that
is associated with their MFA device. Using the temporary security credentials that
are returned from the call, IAM users can then make programmatic calls to APIs that
require MFA authentication. If you do not supply a correct MFA code, then the API
returns an access denied error.
The GetSessionToken
action must be called by using the long-term AWS
security credentials of the AWS account or an IAM user. Credentials that are created
by IAM users are valid for the duration that you specify, between 900 seconds (15
minutes) and 129600 seconds (36 hours); credentials that are created by using account
credentials have a maximum duration of 3600 seconds (1 hour).
We recommend that you do not call GetSessionToken
with root account credentials.
Instead, follow our best
practices by creating one or more IAM users, giving them the necessary permissions,
and using IAM users for everyday interaction with AWS.
The permissions associated with the temporary security credentials returned by GetSessionToken
are based on the permissions associated with account or IAM user whose credentials
are used to call the action. If GetSessionToken
is called using root
account credentials, the temporary credentials have root account permissions. Similarly,
if GetSessionToken
is called using the credentials of an IAM user, the
temporary credentials have the same permissions as the IAM user.
For more information about using GetSessionToken
to create temporary
credentials, go to Temporary
Credentials for Users in Untrusted Environments in the Using IAM.
Namespace: Amazon.SecurityToken
Assembly: AWSSDK.dll
Version: (assembly version)
public virtual GetSessionTokenResponse GetSessionToken()
Exception | Condition |
---|---|
RegionDisabledException | STS is not activated in the requested region for the account that is being asked to create temporary credentials. The account administrator must activate STS in that region using the IAM Console. For more information, see Activating and Deactivating AWS STS in an AWS Region in the Using IAM. |
.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5