SessionCredentials - Amazon Simple Storage Service
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SessionCredentials

The established temporary security credentials of the session.

Note

Directory buckets - These session credentials are only supported for the authentication and authorization of Zonal endpoint APIs on directory buckets.

Contents

AccessKeyId

A unique identifier that's associated with a secret access key. The access key ID and the secret access key are used together to sign programmatic Amazon requests cryptographically.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Expiration

Temporary security credentials expire after a specified interval. After temporary credentials expire, any calls that you make with those credentials will fail. So you must generate a new set of temporary credentials. Temporary credentials cannot be extended or refreshed beyond the original specified interval.

Type: Timestamp

Required: Yes

SecretAccessKey

A key that's used with the access key ID to cryptographically sign programmatic Amazon requests. Signing a request identifies the sender and prevents the request from being altered.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SessionToken

A part of the temporary security credentials. The session token is used to validate the temporary security credentials.

Type: String

Required: Yes

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: