Access Keys, CLI and SDK

Question 1

3 options to access AWS

Answer 1

AWS Management Console (password + MFA)

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI): protected by access keys

AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK) - for code: protected by access keys

Question 2

Where are Access Keys generated?

Answer 2

AWS Console

Question 3

Who manages the Access Keys?

Answer 3

Users manage their own access keys

Question 4

Access Keys are secret, just like a password. Don’t share them

Answer 4

Treat them like the following:

Access Key ID = username
Secret Access Key = password

Question 5

AWS CLI

Answer 5

Interact with AWS services using commands in your command-line shell

Direct access to the public APIs of AWS services

Develop scripts to manage your resources

It’s open-source

Alternative to using AWS Management Console

Question 6

AWS SDK

Answer 6

Set of libraries (language-specific APIs)

Enable you to access and manage AWS services programmatically

Embedded within your application

Supports:
- SDKs (JavaScript, Python, etc)
- Mobile SDKs (Android, IOS, etc)
- IoT Device SDKs (Embedded C, Arduino, etc)

AWS CLI is built on AWS SDK for Python named Boto