Developing on AWS

Question 1

These should be attached to an EC2 instance for better security

Answer 1

IAM Roles

Question 2

You can retrieve the IAM Role name and IAM policy from the EC2 metadata?

Answer 2

False - Only the IAM Role name

Question 3

What does the AWS SDK provide you?

Answer 3

if you want to perform actions on AWS directly from your applications code

Question 4

It’s recommend to use this for SDK credentials security?

Answer 4

It’s recommend to use the default credential provider chain

Question 5

The default credential provider chain works seamlessly with:

Answer 5

• AWS credentials at ~/.aws/credentials (only on our computers or on premise)
• Instance Profile Credentials using IAM Roles (for EC2 machines, etc…)
• Environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)