Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials

The following AWS credentials are covered in this topic:

• AWS credential

• AWS credential No Region

• AWS credential IoT certificate

AWS credential

The AWS credential is used to specify which AWS services should be accessed in a specific region.

Required settings

• Name

• AWS Access Key

• AWS Secret Access Key

• AWS Region

Used by External Service: AWS S3, AWS DynamoDB

Code example: AWS credential

The following code example illustrates how to access AWS services in the us-west-2 region.

Name: AWSMainRegion
AWS Access Key: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
AWS Region: us-west-2

Used by these flow modules

• AWS S3 Bucket Writer

• Snowflake Publisher

AWS credential: No region

This credential is used to request AWS services without region specification.

Required settings

• Name

• AWS Access Key

• AWS Secret Access Key

• Used by External Service: AWS Lambda, AWS SNS

Code example: AWS No Region credential

The following code example shows how to access AWS services that are not in a specific region.

Name: AWSGlobal
AWS Access Key: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
AWS Secret Access Key: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

Used by these flow modules

• Snowflake Publisher

• Certificate-based authentication for AWS IoT services

AWS IoT certificate

The AWS Internet of Things (IoT) certificate is used to establish certificate-based authentication for AWS IoT services

Required settings

• Name

• Certificate

• Private Key

• Public Key

• Root CA

Used by this external service: AWS IoT Core

Code example: AWS Iot certificate

This code example shows the required settings for an AWS IoT certficate.

Name: IoTCert
Certificate: [certificate data]
Private Key: [private key data]
Public Key: [public key data]
Root CA: [CA data]

Used by these flow modules

• AWS IoT Core HTTP Publisher

• AWS IoT Core Publisher