Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Security > SEC 02. How do you manage identities for people and machines? > Use temporary credentials

Require identities to dynamically acquire temporary credentials. For workforce identities, use AWS Single Sign-On, or federation with IAM roles to access AWS accounts. For machine identities, require the use of IAM roles instead of long term access keys.

See Use temporary credentials for more information.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

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Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Security > SEC 02. How do you manage identities for people and machines?

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02Unique

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02Unique") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02Unique'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02Unique'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02Unique"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02Unique"