How do I get the access key and the secret key of my S3 Amazon account?

Question

I have an AWS account and I wish to upload a file using C# and Visual Studio. To do so, I am using a tutorial that I found right here on StackOverflow that requires an Access key and a Secret key.

I tried to create it in the console but it said that I do not have permissions. How do I get those keys? Is there some tutorial that is updated about this topic?

Answer 1

The tutorial you are using assumes that the application has access to AWS IAM credentials.

The credentials can be provided in several ways:

• By running the code on an Amazon EC2 instance that was launched with a Role
• By storing AWS credentials in a configuration file
• By storing AWS credentials in Environment Variables

For details, see:

• AWS .NET SDK Configuring AWS Credentials
• Security Blog A New and Standardized Way to Manage Credentials in the AWS SDKs