How to login AWS with email/access key/security key

Question

I have got AWS account with the info email address/access key/security key, without any other password, i could not find where to login AWS services,such as EC2 etc?

Answer 1

The email address and password are used to log in to the Amazon account through the web site including the AWS Console:

https://console.aws.amazon.com

If you don't have the password associated with that email address, then you will need to have access to the email account so that you can generate and receive a password reset email.

The access key id and secret access key are one way you can access AWS functions through the API and some AWS command line tools and third party services. Exactly how you enter or use these depends on what tools you are using to access AWS features.

There are a number of other credentials AWS uses including an X.509 certificate and private key. These are similar to the access key id and secret access key, but

I've written an article which explains some of the different AWS credentials and how they are used: http://alestic.com/2009/11/ec2-credentials