How do I create an AWS access key?

Resolution

An access key grants programmatic access to your resources. This means that you must guard the access key as carefully as the AWS account root user signin credentials.

As a best practice, do the following:

1. Create an IAM user, and then define that user's permissions as narrowly as possible.
2. Create the access key under that IAM user.

For more information, see What are the best practices to secure my AWS account and its resources?

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