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# Generate Local Credentials from AWS

## Overview

Aquarium works with local credential files for both AWS and GCP! If your data is stored in a location outside of one of these two providers please contact Aquarium for a recommendation!

## Steps to Generate a Local Credentials File

### Navigate to IAM Dashboard

You can access it by searching "IAM" in the AWS console top bar to get to the Identity and Access Management page.

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### Navigate to the Users Tab

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To access the `User` tab, you will need proper permissions. Otherwise, you can create a new user with the appropriate access policy (`AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess` should be sufficient)

### Navigate to Security Credentials Tab

Click on a user, then click on the security credentials tab. You'll see a place where you can create an access key for that user:

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Alternatively, if you already use AWS utilities on the commandline and have your local `awscli` configured, they can just point aquarium at that file, and it'll read from there when needed:

```
# Should be here
~/.aws/credentials
```

As a step towards doing that, you'll had to have created a personal access key (you as a root user tied to your email login, not a virtual IAM user).There's a dropdown in the very top-right which has an option called "Security credentials." Clicking on that will get you to a very similar page, where you can create access keys for your root user:image.png&#x20;

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