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Creating Access Keys via the Command Line

This document guides you through creating Access keys using the AWS command line.

Step 1: Create an IAM user for your AWS account using the EC2 command line.

1aws iam create-user \
2    --user-name MontCacheUser
  • Step 2: Create the necessary permission policies.
cat >/tmp/CreateCache-Permissions-Policy.json <<EOF { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "cloudwatch:*", "cloudformation:*", "eks:*", "ec2:*", "ssm:*", "autoscaling:*", "elasticloadbalancing:*", "iam:*Role*", "iam:*InstanceProfile", "iam:*InstanceProfiles", "iam:*OpenID*", "iam:*Polic*", "sts:AssumeRole", "s3:ListBucket", "s3:GetObject", "s3:DeleteObject", "s3:PutObject", "rds:CreateDBSubnetGroup", "rds:DescribeDBSubnetGroups", "rds:CreateDBInstance", "rds:DescribeDBInstances", "rds:DeleteDBInstance", "rds:DeleteDBSubnetGroup", "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions", "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots", "rds:DeleteDBSnapshot", "ecr:*" ], "Resource": "*" }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole", "Resource": "*", "Condition": { "StringEquals": { "iam:AWSServiceName": [ "autoscaling.amazonaws.com", "ec2scheduled.amazonaws.com", "elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com", "spot.amazonaws.com", "eks.amazonaws.com", "eks-nodegroup.amazonaws.com" ] } } } ] } EOF policy_arn=$(aws iam create-policy --policy-name CreateMontCache-policy --policy-document file:///tmp/CreateCache-Permissions-Policy.json --output text --query Policy.Arn)
  • Step 3: Attach the above permission policies to the IAM user.
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name MontCacheUser --policy-arn ${policy_arn}
  • Step 4: Generate the Access keys for the user.
1aws iam create-access-key \
2    --user-name MontCacheUser
3
4{
5    "AccessKey": {
6        "UserName": "MontCacheUser",
7        "Status": "Active",
8        "CreateDate": "2024-03-09T18:39:23.411Z",
9        "SecretAccessKey": "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYzEXAMPLEKEY",
10        "AccessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
11    }
12}

Finally, save the generated AccessKeyId and SecretAccessKey in the Montplex Cache.