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Protecting AWS credentials

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Protecting AWS credentials

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- [Instructor] One of the important jobs when running applications in the AWS cloud is to think of all of the access points and to think of how am I going to protect the credentials that need access to the resources? Most of the resources, when they fail, can be replaced, compute instances, services, but the data cannot, so obviously it's the most important, but the access to that data means that you have to protect that credentials. Number one job. All API actions at AWS are first going to require authentication. Who are you? I don't know who you are, you're not getting any further. If I know who you are, well, then there's going to be policies attached to your account or attached to your authentication process that, first of all, deny, implicitly deny, but potentially allow you to carry out specific tasks. Now you have to think about, who are we talking about, the person running the application on their phone, the administrators? So they all have different levels of access that…

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