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Authenticate to AWS

Alkaia deploys to your own AWS account. Your credentials never leave your machine and are not sent to any third party.

Option 1 — AWS CLI profile (recommended)

If you already use the AWS CLI, Alkaia will pick up your credentials automatically.

Terminal window
aws configure

You’ll be prompted for:

  • AWS Access Key ID
  • AWS Secret Access Key
  • Default region (e.g. eu-west-3)
  • Default output format (leave as json)

Option 2 — Environment variables

Alternatively, set credentials in your shell:

Terminal window
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
export AWS_REGION=eu-west-3

Verify the connection

Terminal window
alk whoami

This prints the AWS account and IAM identity that Alkaia will use.

Next step

Continue with Your first deployment.