Overview

The AWS Authentication Connector provides a way to authenticate with AWS. Authentication can be considered as first step before calling services like Amazon S3, SQS, SNS etc..

There are two types of credentials that can be used through the AWS Authentication connector:

• Static credentials – Based on AWS “Access key ID” and “Secret Access Key”
• Temporary credentials – Based on short lived session token, more secured and recommended way. 

In addition to providing constants for authentication credentials, this module also provides utility to generate SigV4Headers which are required to send while calling AWS APIs using REST calls. 

For use cases where Region and a UseStaticCredentials boolean shall be managed in runtime, there is a folder with a reusable snippet. The GetCredentials microflow further returns a credentials object based on the region and type of credentials.

Documentation

Please see the documentation on Mendix Docs.