Securing and managing AWS Access-Key

What is AWS?

AWS Stands for Amazon Web Services that provides service over cloud such as managing Data centers so user do not need to deploy physical servers. Aws provide all those facility that are needed by user to run an application. It provides all the services such as monitoring, logging and much more over the cloud and that too on pay per use basis.

As per AWS responsibility model (Where mentioned what services are managed by user and what are managed by AWS) so, authorization must be handles by user only.

What is Access Keys?

To protect the account or to reduce the surface of attack, AWS gives us IAM facility that helps to manage user accounts, roles and policies. By using access keys we can provide users to work on over servers with the privileages defined by us and without sharing the login credentials with him.. In order to configure the AWS with keys you can use this command

Command: aws configure

Configure: Use this to configure AWS command Line interface.

As we enter this command it with ask AWS access key ID

After that, it ask AWS Secret Access key , insert the secret key provided by the admin to you