Reading Time: 7 minutes What criminal wouldn’t take advantage of a pair of house keys left lying around a cafe table? Those keys give entryway to your home, any valuable possessions inside, and even the ability to live in the home as if they were the original owner. The same goes for access keys left around your cloud environment.

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Access keys are long-term credentials you can create to give programmatic access to cloud resources. They work in two parts: an access key ID and a secret access key. Access keys can allow convenient access to human users so they can avoid repeatedly signing on and authenticating themselves manually.

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