Providing AWS credentials

1. Create an account.

   To create an AWS account, see How do I create and activate a new AWS account?

2. Create an administrative user.

   Avoid using your AWS account root user (the initial account you create) to access the AWS Management Console and services. Instead, create an administrative user account, as explained in Creating your first IAM admin user and group.

   After you create the administrative user account and record the login details, sign out of your AWS account root user and sign back in using the administrative account.

To create and use credentials

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

2. Choose Users, and then choose Add user.

3. Enter a user name. For this tutorial, we'll use SdkUser.

4. Under Select AWS access type, select Programmatic access, and then choose Next: Permissions.

5. Choose Attach existing policies directly.

6. In Search, enter s3, and then select AmazonS3FullAccess.

7. Choose Next: Tags, Next: Review, and Create user.

8. On the Success screen, choose Download .csv.

   The downloaded file contains the Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key for this IAM user.

   Note

   You will not have another opportunity to download or copy the Secret Access Key.

9. Treat your Secret Access Key as a password; save in a trusted location and do not share it.

   Warning

   Use appropriate security measures to keep these credentials safe and rotated.

10. Create or open the AWS shared credentials file. This file is ~/.aws/credentials on Linux and macOS systems, and %USERPROFILE%\.aws\credentials on Windows.

11. Add the following text to the AWS shared credentials file, but replace the example ID value and example key value with the ones you obtained earlier. Save the file. See Location of Credentials Files for more information.

    [default]
    aws_access_key_id = AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
    aws_secret_access_key = wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY