IDENTITY AND SECURITY
AWS Security Token Service
Issues temporary AWS credentials for role sessions and federation.
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What job does it solve?
People, workloads, or external accounts need time-limited role credentials.
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Where does it stop?
Long-lived access keys are being created merely for convenience.
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