Configuring AWS Credentials

Introduction to configuring your local environment

Now that we have configured AWS Amplify globally, we need to configure AWS credentials. AWS Amplify will create a role using our credentials to deploy our backend when we deploy our application. In our lesson “Creating AWS account,” we created a free AWS account. Log in to the account, and in the search bar, type “IAM” and then press “Enter.”

On the right side of the panel, click “Users”:

Clicking “Users” will take us to the page below. Click the “Add users” button to create a new user in your account.

Provide the username for this user and then select AWS access type. For this lesson, we are going to select “Access Key - Programmatic access”. In the next section, we must ...