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Access keys in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) are used to:

• log in to the AWS Management Console.

• make programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs.

• log in to Amazon EC2 instances.

• authenticate to AWS CodeCommit repositories.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html