Storing the Access Key on Educative and Adding Permissions

In the last lesson, we created an IAM user and learned how to retrieve the access key and secret access key for it. Now, we need them again to store them on Educative for future use.

Save the access key on Educative

Please retrieve the access key and secret access key for your IAM user. You should have stored them on your computer during the last lesson.

Click the “Edit” button below and enter the access key ID into the “AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID” field and the secret access key into “AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.” Leave the “AWS_DEFAULT_REGION” as it is.

It should look like this:

Note that your access key ID and secret access key will look different than the ones in the screenshot.

Now, click the “Save” button.

Click “Click to connect…” to start the terminal.

Type in aws configure list to see if the values you added earlier are being used by the AWS CLI. You should see something like this:

Congratulations, you have used the AWS CLI for the first time!

Update the code widget

While we’re at it, let’s also make sure that the code widget has the environment variables set as well.

Please follow the same steps (by clicking the “Edit” button), and check if the environment variables are set. ...