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* [[Amazon AWS#Subjects|Amazon AWS]]
* [[Amazon AWS#Subjects|Amazon AWS]]


=IAM User=
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* [[Amazon AWS Security Concepts|Concepts]]
An ''IAM user'' is a person, system, or application who can use AWS products, each with individual security credentials, all controlled by and billed to a single AWS account. With IAM, each user is allowed to do only what they need to do as part of the user's job.
* [[AWS Security Operations|Operations]]
 
<font color=red>TODO, continue with IAM concepts http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/IAM_Concepts.html</font>
 
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=API Access Keys=
 
Each [[#IAM_User|IAM user]] has a set of API access keys. These keys are needed when the user attempts to make programmatic calls to AWS or EC2, using [[Amazon EC2 CLI]] tools for example. The user can create, modify, view and rotate these access keys.
 
There are two types of access keys:
 
# '''Access key ID''' (example <tt>AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE)</tt>)
# '''Secret access key''' (example: <tt>wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY</tt>)
 
When creating an access key, IAM returns the access key id and the secret access key. The secret access key is only accessible at the time it was created. If the secret access key is lost, the corresponding access key must be deleted and recreated.
 
<font color=red>Relationship between Access Key ID and Secret Key?</font>
 
The access keys can be managed here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?#security_credential by navigating to Users -> username -> Security Credentials -> Access Credentials.
 
More about access keys for IAM users: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/ManagingCredentials.html
 
For details on how access keys can be set in the local environment, see [[Amazon EC2 CLI Installation#Set_the_Access_Keys|Setting the Access Keys during Amazon EC2 CLI Installation]].

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