A note about security credentials
AWS discourages using your root credentials. Instead, it promotes limiting who can access resources and what resources can be accessed by issuing granular permissions attached to individual credentials. From their IAM page:
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources for your users. You use IAM to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and how they can use resources (authorization).
For this demo, we'll be using credentials limited to only the services we'll be using. It's not perfect by any means, but it's a good start:
As seen on the Auckland AWS meetup.
