AWS provides AWS Security Service (AWS STS) as a web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for users. This guide describes the AWS STS API.
AWS Security Service (STS) is an AWS facility for requesting temporary user credentials with limited privileges. It allows you to acquire short-term access to privileged roles in a controlled manner.
AWS provides AWS Security Service (AWS STS) as a web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for users. This guide describes the AWS STS API.
Security service (STS) is a cross-platform open standard core component of the OASIS group's WS-Trust web services single sign-on infrastructure framework specification.
Role chaining is when you use a role to assume a second role through the AWS CLI or API. For example, RoleA has permission to assume RoleB . You can enable User1 to assume RoleA by using their long-term user credentials in the AssumeRole API operation. This returns RoleA short-term credentials.
The minimum session duration is 1 hour, and can be set to a maximum of 12 hours. IAM Identity Center automatically creates IAM roles in each assigned account for each permission set, and configures these roles with a maximum session duration of 12 hours.
By default, the temporary security credentials created by AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity last for one hour. However, you can use the optional DurationSeconds parameter to specify the duration of your session. You can provide a value from 900 seconds (15 minutes) up to the maximum session duration setting for the role.
A Regional endpoint is the URL of the entry point within a particular region for an AWS web service. AWS recommends using Regional AWS Security Service (AWS STS) endpoints instead of the global endpoint to reduce latency, build in redundancy, and increase session validity.
The certificate can be used for a variety of purposes, such as to confirm the authority of the signatory to enter into a transaction, to confirm the accuracy of financial statements, or to confirm compliance with legal or contractual requirements.
As referenced above, a typical officer's certificate certifies that various closing conditions have been satisfied as of the closing date, whereas the secretary's certificate is necessary during the closing to ensure that the selling entity is duly organized or incorporated and capable of effecting the transaction.