Patent ID: 11882154
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method, comprising:
performing, by one or more computing devices:
parsing a template for deploying one or more resources in a network-accessible service provider to identify a user access key attribute parameter that opaquely refers to a previously defined access key value to be used by the one or more resources created during deployment to authenticate an entity or to authorize an action on behalf of the entity, wherein the previously defined access key value that is opaquely referred to in the template by the user access key attribute parameter is not included in the template in plaintext, wherein the one or more resources, once deployed, provide an environment for execution of an application or execution of a network-accessible service;
obtaining, based at least in part on the user access key attribute parameter identified in the template and that opaquely refers to the previously defined access key value, the previously defined access key value for the identified user access key attribute parameter in the template;
deploying the one or more resources in the network-accessible service provider to create the environment for execution of the application or the network-accessible service, wherein deploying comprises creating the one or more resources; and
receiving, by the one or more resources, the determined previously defined access key value;
wherein the one or more resources created during deployment use the received previously defined access key value, that is opaquely referred to in the template by the user access key attribute parameter but not included in the template in plaintext, to authenticate an entity or to authorize an action.