AWS named profile with Access Key

Named profile

A named profile is a collection of settings and credentials that you can apply to a AWS CLI command.

Requirement

aws users

aws cli

Creating the User access key

Access to your aws console account and open to iam ( https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/ )

Choose users

Choose security credential tap

In the Access keys section, choose Create access key.

To download the key pair, choose Download .csv file.

Creating AWS named profile

$ aws configure

AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE (Your key id)

AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY (Your Secret Key)

Default region name [None]: ap-southeast-1

This will have created the ~/.aws/credentials file and ~/.aws/config populated it with the credentials settings.

$ ls -la ~/.aws/

total 16

drwxr-xr-x 4 xxxxxx staff 128 Feb 14 12:54 .

drwxr-xr-x+ 79xxxxxx staff 2528May 23 16:01 ..

-rw------- 1 xxxxxxx staff 138 Aug 6 2020 config

-rw------- 1 xxxxxxx staff 231 Feb 14 12:54 credentials

Verify

$ cat credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE

aws_secret_access_key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

$ aws sts get-caller-identity

{

"UserId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",

"Account": "xxxxxxxxxxxx",

"Arn": "arn:aws:iam::xxxxxxxxx:user/xxxxxxxxx"

}

ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

Default output format [None]: json

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