As we have seen in the previous chapter, AWS provides you with various credentials to authorize and authenticate your requests. Let us look at these AWS credentials in detail:
- Email and password: These credentials are used by your account root user. As discussed earlier, by default, the account root user has access to all services and resources. AWS recommends that root user credentials should be used to create another user and all the work should be carried out by the other user.
- IAM username and password: When you create one or more users in your AWS account through IAM. They can login to the AWS console by using the username and password. This username is given by you when you create a user in IAM. Passwords for these users are created by you as well, you can give permissions to users to change their passwords.
- Multi-factor Authentication (MFA): MFA adds an...
