AWS Guide

AWS CLI configuration

When using Amazon S3 to store data, a simple method of managing AWS access is to set your access keys to environment variables. However, managing mutiple sets of keys on a single machine (e.g. when working on multiple projects) it is best to use a credentials file, typically located in ~/.aws/credentials. A typical file might look like:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=myaccesskey
aws_secret_access_key=mysecretkey

[another_project]
aws_access_key_id=myprojectaccesskey
aws_secret_access_key=myprojectsecretkey

You can add the profile name when initialising a project; assuming no applicable environment variables are set, the profile credentials will be used be default.

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Last update: 2022-10-16