Getting started with Linux: how to create a new AWS accesskey

Getting started with Linux: how to create a new AWS accesskey

Q: How can I create a new AWS accesskey when I configure an application that requires access to my Amazon AWS account to provide the AWS accesskey ID and secret accesskey?

Amazon AWS Security creden are used to verify you and authorize any third-party applications to access your AWS account. Different AWS Security creden, are available, such as passwords, access keys, MFA, And X.509 certificates.

If you want to create a new access key (access key ID and secret access key), follow these steps.

First, log on to the AWS console.

Select the "Security creden" menu from the top bar (as shown in the red box in the figure ).

On the next page, select the "access key (access key ID and secret access key)" option (as shown in the red box in the figure ).

On the next page, you will see a list of existing access key IDS (if any ). Note: you cannot restore the "secret access key" of the existing access key ID ". For security reasons, the secret access key is only visible when you create a new access key.

Click "create new access key" (as shown in the figure below). A new access key ID and password access key pair will be created immediately.

Download a key file containing the new access key, or copy and paste the new access key information. Keep in mind that once you close this window, the secret access key will no longer be available unless you download a key file.

Multi-User AWS account

If you are an account created as a company identity and multiple employees share this company account, you may want to use identity and Access Management (IAM) to create and manage their access keys.

IAM is a web service that allows a company to manage multiple users and their security creden。 associated with an AWS account. With IAM, multiple users can log on to a single AWS account as different identities and manage their security creden。 without interfering with each other's keys.

To manage IAM users, click the user menu on the "Security creden。" page (see the figure below ).

Then, you can create a new IAM user and manage their security creden。, such as access keys.

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