AWS STS code examples for the SDK for JavaScript (v3)

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) to work with AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS).

AWS STS creates and provides trusted users with temporary security credentials that can control access to your AWS resources.

⚠ Important

• Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account. For more details, see AWS Pricing and Free Tier.
• Running the tests might result in charges to your AWS account.
• We recommend that you grant your code least privilege. At most, grant only the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant least privilege.
• This code is not tested in every AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Regional Services.

Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the javascriptv3 folder.

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

• AssumeRole

Run the examples

Instructions

Note: All code examples are written in ECMAscript 6 (ES6). For guidelines on converting to CommonJS, see JavaScript ES6/CommonJS syntax.

Run a single action

node ./actions/<fileName>

Run a scenario

Most scenarios can be run with the following command:

node ./scenarios/<fileName>

Run with options

Some actions and scenarios can be run with options from the command line:

node ./scenarios/<fileName> --option1 --option2

util.parseArgs is used to configure these options. For the specific options available to each script, see the parseArgs usage for that file.

Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the javascriptv3 folder.

Additional resources

• AWS STS User Guide
• AWS STS API Reference
• SDK for JavaScript (v3) AWS STS reference

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