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About CodeCommit users

About CodeCommit users - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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About CodeCommit users

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- [Narrator] Let's look a little bit more deeply at how AWS CodeCommit Credentials work. So I'll refer you to a couple documentation pages because it's a bit unintuitive. So the first page here talks about using IAM or user accounts with CodeCommit. You have three options, GIT Credentials, SSH Keys, and AWS Access Keys. So you can see, GIT Credentials are an IAM generated user name and password pair that I can use to communicate with CodeCommit repositories over HTTPS. Alternatively I could use SSH Keys, which are a locally generated, public-private key pair that I could use to associate with my IAM user to communicate with CodeCommit or SSH. Or AWS Access Keys, which I can use with a credential helper, included with the AWS CLI or scripting tool, to communicate with AWS CodeCommit over HTTPS. And this third way is really only for demo and testing, and that's actually what I'm doing here. So notice that the first two ways are recommended, and the third way is not. So we're going to…

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