What is the relationship with Canonical and AWS?
Hello,
I sent an inquiry to Canonical Ubuntu Pro support to understand why a Canonical ID was assigned to our root user after creating the account. I sent this inquiry this past June and have not received an answer. Vision21 Networks was awarded five (5) desktop licenses, but I am unable to find the AWS Canonical ID when I access Ubuntu's portal. I would like to know why AWS gave a Canonical ID and what is its purpose?
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The AWS Canonical ID and the Ubuntu Canonical are completely unrelated.
An AWS Canonical user ID is an alphanumeric identifier that is an obfuscated form of account ID uniquely assigned to each account.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-identifiers.html
An alpha-numeric identifier, such as 79a59df900b949e55d96a1e698fbacedfd6e09d98eacf8f8d5218e7cd47ef2be, that is an obfuscated form of the AWS account ID. You can use this ID to identify an AWS account when granting cross-account access to buckets and objects using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can retrieve the canonical user ID for your AWS account as either the root user or an IAM user.
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Riku,
Thanks for answering this question. I thought the Canonical ID was related to Ubuntu Pro FIPS for AWS. I will read the suggested document.
Regards,
v21networks