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

Claim 14:
15. One or more non-transitory, computer readable storage media, storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to implement:
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 the deploying 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, 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, wherein deploying comprises creating the one or more resources; and
providing, to the one or more resources, the determined access key value;
wherein the one or more resources created during deployment and that provide the environment for execution of the application or the network-accessible service are to use the 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.