STS
Security Token Service
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Security Token Service
Last updated
Enables you to create temporary, limited- privileges credentials to access your AWS resources
Short-term credentials: you configure the expiration period
Use cases
Identity federation: manage user identities in external systems, and provide them with STS tokens to access AWS resources
IAM Roles for cross/same account access
IAM Roles for Amazon EC2: provide temporary credentials for EC2 instances to access AWS resources