1.2 Configure your computing environment and login to AWS

When you interact with AWS, you need to specify your AWS security credentials to verify who you are and whether you have permission to access the resources you are requesting for. AWS uses the security credentials to authenticate and authorize your requests.

To create Access keys (access key ID, secret access key) to login to AWS, please perform the following steps.

1. Choose your account name in the navigation bar, and then choose My Security Credentials (orange part in the figure).

2. A new window will be popped up as below. Click "Continue to Security Credentials" to proceed.

3. Click "Create New access Key" - blue button in the middle of the figure.

4. Click "Download Key File" in the pop-up window, and save the access key ID and secret access key to a file in your computer.