Managing AWS credentials

Protecting and safeguarding data on the cloud has many unique challenges, especially if additional compliance regulations need to be met. Authentication always plays an important aspect in cloud computing. Credential management is key to the effective management of the cloud ecosystem.

In this recipe, we will discuss the process of generating the access key and managing profiles using AWS PowerShell cmdlets from a Linux machine.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have an AWS account. Go through the AWS documentation (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/) to set yourself up with an AWS account.

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