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Add Amazon Web Services (AWS) Credential

In order to allow Devopness to manage AWS resources on your behalf, IAM user security credentials have to be provided.

If you don't have access to an AWS account, you can create an account for free following the cloud provider specific guide AWS Free Tier

  1. Log in to AWS console and access AWS IAM AWS IAM Console
  2. In the navigation pane on the left side, choose Users and then choose Create user Create new user
  3. Type the user name for the new user and click Next. Tip: you might want to name the user as devopness to make it easier to track its activities User details
  4. In the Set Permissions step click Attach policies directly Set permissions
  5. Search and select the policies AmazonEC2FullAccess Set EC2 permission
  6. and IAMReadOnlyAccess Set IAM permission
  7. Follow the prompts then click Create user Create user
  8. In the Users list, click the username link of the user you've just created List of users
  9. Navigate to the Security credentials tab Security credentials tab
  10. In this page, scroll down to the Access keys section and click Create access key Access key
  11. Choose Other and click Next Create key
  12. Give the key a description (Optional) and click 'Next' and click Create access key Description key
  13. Copy the values of Access key ID and Secret access key Create user
  14. To add the copied credentials to Devopness see Add a Credential