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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 Web Services requests cryptographically.

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.

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

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