Storing your credentials

Your credentials should all be treated as sensitive information as they allow access to your learning data, which includes personally identifiable information. That means that for security reasons, rather than including the credentials in your application code, it is better to store them securely (such as environment variables).

This reduces the risk of the credentials accidentally being viewed by someone else or checked into an online code repository.

AWS_BUCKET=data-connector-v2-123456-production 
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="XGTWTIPVHZXSOZFGDOAL" 
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="UbCtK9sUDmWXB5/cRDwwckoB6PYGhE/vIdkhg3oV"
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1

Here are guides to set environment variables on different platforms.

• Windows

• MacOS or Linux