Cloud Native Python

Generating authentication keys

Authentication is an important feature for any product or platform to check the authenticity of a user who is trying to access and perform operations on the product, and also to keep the system secure. Since here we are going to access the AWS account using APIs, we need authorization keys to validate our request. Now, an important AWS service enters the picture called IAM (Identity and Access Management).

In IAM, we define the  users and generate access/secret keys, and also assign roles based on the resources which we want to access using it.

It is highly recommended NEVER to generate access/secrets keys as the root user, because it will have, by default, full access over your account.

The following are the ...