Configuring an Amazon EC2 connection

In order for Cloud Automation Manager to access your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, an access key and the secret access key to your account are required.

The access key and the secret access key are not your AWS user name and password, but they are special tokens that allow Cloud Automation Manager to communicate with your AWS account via secure API calls. You can also have temporary access key, access secret, and session token that expires in a specified amount of time. Refresh the credentials in this cloud connections page after the temporary credentials expire. Alternatively, you can define the access key, access secret, and session token in the Provider section:

provider "aws" {
 region = "${var.aws_region}"
 token  = "${var.aws_token}"
 access_key = "${var.aws_access_key}"
 secret_key = "${var.aws_secret_key}"
}

For more information about creating AWS access keys, see Creating, Modifying, and Viewing Access Keys (AWS Management Console) .

For information about the available resources, see AWS Provider .