Understand how to create security credentials in AWS
This section will walk you through the steps to create security credentials in AWS. These credentials will be used to load data from AWS S3 into Firebolt.In order to enable Firebolt to load data from your S3 buckets, you must:
Create a user.
Create appropriate permissions for this user.
Create access credentials to authenticate this user.
Now that you have created a user, authorized the user with the appropriate S3 permissions, you will create access credentials for this user. These credentials will be used to authenticate the user.
Select the Security Credentials tab, as shown in the following image:
In the Access Keys section, select the Create Access Key button.
For the use case, choose the Application running on AWS compute service. You will see an alternative recommendation. You can check the box that says “I understand the above recommendation and want to proceed to create an access key” and select Next.
Set a description tag for the access key and select **C,
You will see a message indicating that the access key was created. Make sure to download the access key. You will need these credentials when you load S3 data into Firebolt.