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12. How do you manage your AWS credentials?

In this episode, Eoin and Luciano talk about how to manage AWS credentials and different ways to manage them. From the more traditional (and not recommended) IAM credentials to SSO.

In this episode we mentioned the following resources:

- GitHub integration with OIDC: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-hardening-your-deployments/configuring-openid-connect-in-amazon-web-services

- MFA access for assumed roles: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_mfa_configure-api-require.html

- AWS vault: https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault

- AWS SSO utils: https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-sso-util

- AWS SSO export credentials: https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-export-credentials

This episode is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AWSBites

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