Initialization

We need the AWS credentials to access Amazon Web Services for using the API tools. We will check out two ways to get an instance of com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentials:

• Using BasicAWSCredentials

• Using ProfileCredentialsProvider

Using BasicAWSCredentials

BasicAWSCredentials is a vanilla flavor implementation class for providing the AWS credentials, which are the access key and the secret key:

// Class Variable
protected AWSCredentials credentials = null;

....

public void initializeAWSCredentials(){
  credentials = new BasicAWSCredentials("ACCESS_ID", "SECRET_KEY");
}

Replace ACCESS_ID and SECRET_KEY with your actual access id and secret key.

Using ProfileCredentialsProvider

ProfileCredentialsProvider provides AWSCredentials. It accesses the configuration file and looks for the named profile credentials. This helps in storing multiple credentials in the configuration file, and in using the profile based on the name provided by the application.

The configuration file on my machine...