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How to generate and manage EC2 credentials on 3Engines Cloud🔗

EC2 credentials are used for accessing private S3 buckets on 3Engines Cloud cloud. This article covers how to generate and manage a pair of EC2 credentials so that you will be able to mount those buckets both

  • on your virtual machines and
  • on your local computers.

Warning

A pair of EC2 credentials usually provides access to secret data so share it only with trusted individuals.

Prerequisites🔗

No. 1 Hosting

You need a 3Engines Cloud hosting account with access to Horizon interface: https://3engine.rootxwire.com/

No. 2 3Engines CLI client installed and configured

You need to have the 3Engines CLI operational.

First, it must be installed. You have several options, such as: