AWS Account
An AWS Account is a service account on Amazon's AWS service.
- Context:
- It can be associated to an AWS Account Id and an AWS Account Alias.
- It can be associated with a AWS Organizational Unit.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: AWS IAM User, AWS Resource.
References
2023
- GBard
- GCP accounts are containers for all GCP resources, including projects, folders, and organizations. GCP projects are containers for all GCP services, such as virtual machines, Cloud Storage buckets, and Cloud Functions.
- Azure subscriptions are containers for all Azure resources, including resource groups, storage accounts, and virtual machines. Azure resource groups are containers for related Azure resources, such as a virtual machine and its associated storage account.
- AWS accounts are containers for all AWS resources, including regions, Availability Zones, and EC2 instances. AWS regions are geographical locations where AWS resources are located. AWS Availability Zones are isolated locations within a region.
2014
- https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd
- … Before storing anything into S3 you must sign up for an "AWS" account (where AWS = Amazon Web Services) to obtain a pair of identifiers: Access Key and Secret Key. You will need to give these keys to S3cmd. Think of them as if they were a username and password for your S3 account.