AWS Authentication Connector

Content Type: Module
Categories: Authentication,Connectors,AWS

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.

 

Attention 

For modeler version 9.24.2 until 9.24.29 remove the older version libraries manually from the userlib folder to avoid java compilation errors

Documentation

Please see the documentation on Mendix Docs.

Releases

Version: 4.1.1
Framework Version: 10.21.0
Release Notes: * New AWS region Mexico Central has been added and is ready to be used. * UI widgets are updated, so no errors appear when module is imported into a new blank starter app of version Mendix 10.21.
Version: 4.0.0
Framework Version: 10.21.0
Release Notes: Upgraded to Mx 10.21.0, added java dependencies to the module settings, improved logging and method added for async client creation.
Version: 3.2.2
Framework Version: 9.24.2
Release Notes: Fixed vulnerabilities in netty-handler and netty-commons libraries.
Version: 3.1.3
Framework Version: 9.18.0
Release Notes: - no more typos in logs
Version: 3.0.2
Framework Version: 9.18.0
Release Notes: - Added icons to authentication connector operations.
Version: 2.3.2
Framework Version: 9.18.0
Release Notes: Bug fix to make Authentication compatible with textract 1.2.2
Version: 2.1.2
Framework Version: 9.12.1
Release Notes: Added URLPrefix attribute in SigV4Builder entity to support services which have an additional prefix in their url (e.g. Amazon API Gateway)
Version: 2.0.1
Framework Version: 9.12.1
Release Notes: Bug fix - Update in Domain model.
Version: 1.0.1
Framework Version: 9.12.1
Release Notes: Security fix - updated userlib removed unused jar files.