Below is a list of the most common customer questions. If you can’t find an answer to your question, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
How do I authenticate AWS?
To authenticate from the console as a root user, you must sign in with your email address and password. As an IAM user, provide your account ID or alias, and then your username and password. To authenticate from the API or AWS CLI, you must provide your access key and secret key.
What is authentication in AWS?
AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of your username and password. You can enable MFA for your AWS account and for individual IAM users you have created under your account. MFA can be also be used to control access to AWS service APIs.
Request signature is the API request parameter api_sig which is added to every request to verify request user's authenticity on behalf of which the request is made. The request used to demonstrate request signing is a POST to https://infogr.am/service/v1/infographics.
The HTTP Signatures specification is intended to provide a standard way for clients to add origin authentication and message integrity to HTTP-based messages. The HTTP Signature Nonce specification describes a way to use the HTTP Signatures protocol over an unsecured channel like HTTP.
What is AWS Access Key ID?
AWS Access Keys. Access Keys are used to sign the requests you send to Amazon S3. Like the Username/Password pair you used to access your AWS Management Console, Access Key I'd and Secret Access Key are used for programmatic (API) access to AWS services. You can manage your Access Keys in AWS Management Console.
How do I find my AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key?
Open the IAM console.
From the navigation menu, click Users.
Select your IAM user name.
Click User Actions, and then click Manage Access Keys.
Click Create Access Key.
Your keys will look something like this:
Amazon EC2 uses public key cryptography to encrypt and decrypt login information. Public key cryptography uses a public key to encrypt a piece of data, and then the recipient uses the private key to decrypt the data. The public and private keys are known as a key pair.
Can AWS access my KMS keys?
Q: Can I bring my own keys to AWS KMS? Yes. You can import a copy of your key from your own key management infrastructure to AWS KMS and use it with any integrated AWS service or from within your own applications. You cannot import asymmetric CMOS into AWS KMS.
How do I find my AWS KMS key?
To get the key IDs and key Arms of the customer master keys, use the ListKeys operation. These examples use the optional Limit parameter, which sets the maximum number of CMOS returned in each call. For help identifying a CMK in an AWS KMS operations, see Key identifiers (Said).
Setup your AWS account.
Create an AWS KMS Customer Master Key as described and assign an alias to it as described in step 1 and 2.
Place your security sensitive data such as API keys, database credentials etc.
For encryption execute ./bin/encrypt --kms-id=alias/your-key.
Is AWS kms region specific?
Using an AWS KMS master key Since the KMS keys are constrained in a region, copying the object (source code. zip file) into a different account across the region requires cross-account access to the KMS key. This must occur before Amazon S3 can use that key for encryption and decryption.
How do I change my AWS region?
Log in to the AWS Management Console.
If required, use the region selector in the top right corner to switch to the region where your instance was launched.
Select your instance and then select the Create Image option in the Actions menu.
Specify the name for the new image and then click the Create Image button.
How do I rotate my AWS key?
Step 1: Create a second access key.
Step 2: Distribute your access key to all instances of your applications.
Step 3: Change the state of the previous access key to inactive.
Step 4: Validate that your application is still working as expected.
Step 5: Delete the inactive access key.
Key rotation is when you retire an encryption key and replace that old key by generating a new cryptographic key. Rotating keys on a regular basis help meet industry standards and cryptographic best practices.
How do you sign a request?
To sign a request, you first calculate a hash (digest) of the request. Then you use the hash value, some other information from the request, and your secret access key to calculate another hash known as the signature.