03. Authorization by AWS CLI

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Aslan Brooke edited this page Jun 28, 2014 · 1 revision

"zaws" uses the built in capabilities of the AWS CLI for accessing credentials and therefore "ZAWS" NEVER READS YOUR ID OR ACCESS KEY. A quick way to do it is to export two environment variables that the AWS CLI can use as follows:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXXX
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YYYY

The AWS CLI documentation hase three options, all which should work. Again "zaws" never reads these keys, only the AWS CLI which we all know/trust to have access to those keys.