Signing the AWS CLI in without access keys, then proving a policy in the simulator
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You have just installed the AWS CLI, and the setup guide asks you to paste in an access key ID and secret. That leaves a long-lived secret sitting in a file on your laptop. Next you need a permissions policy, and you have no way to know whether it does what you meant until something breaks. This la…
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- 2026-10-16 09:40 · DEV Community — AI
Signing the AWS CLI in without access keys, then proving a policy in the simulator