Credentials - AWS Security Token Service

Credentials

AWS credentials for API authentication.

Contents

AccessKeyId

The access key ID that identifies the temporary security credentials.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 16. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\w]*

Required: Yes

Expiration

The date on which the current credentials expire.

Type: Timestamp

Required: Yes

SecretAccessKey

The secret access key that can be used to sign requests.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SessionToken

The token that users must pass to the service API to use the temporary credentials.

Type: String

Required: Yes

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: