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AWS ​

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a ubiquitous cloud service provider. It's used by everyone, ever.

Configuring ​

Authenticating ​

Authentication is done using their IAM tokens.

credentials file ​

It's generally best practice to manage your local machine credentials under a profile in a credentials file.

~/.aws/credentials

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

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

You'll want your profiles to be named something better.

After configuring this, use:

shell
aws --profile <your-profile>

to authenticate with the given profile.

If there's a build tool which needs it, the variable is:

shell
export AWS_PROFILE=<your-profile>