How to set up an EC2 account for a client?

Question

They do not want to give me their Amazon username and password because it has a complete purchase history.

In any case, are they allowed to authorize me as a user?

Answer 1

Amazon has an AWS identity and access management system that should help with what you ask. http://aws.amazon.com/iam/

Answer 2

Simply create new accounts on Amazon, and it’s wise to keep separate and personal accounts in the calculation of costs. I would recommend doing this for simplicity, but I understand that this can be a problem regarding potential abuse on the rest of the Amazon site.

Using passkeys (as suggested by @KristianGlass) may also be sufficient, allowing you to create and kill instances, but not allowing you to access the AWS main console. Elasticfox also works with EC2 keys, so you can use this as a surrogate for the console.

Answer 3

Depending on what you are looking for, they may simply create a passkey for you and use it.

If they look in the "Security Accounts" section of their account page ( this> should have a link to it), they can easily "Create a new Access Key" (they, of course, must provide you with an access key identifier and a secret access key )

To rephrase Amazon's documentation of access keys , you can use them for REST requests or request APIs - in particular, this includes EC2.