Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
About three weeks ago I started working on a new open source project meant to interact with AWS. Coding fast and dumb, I cut and pasted my personal AWS credentials into my source code, committed it, and pushed it to Github.<p>The next day I got an email from Amazon, alerting me to the problem. Apparently, they scrape github looking for just that kind of stupidity. I instantly deleted the project, but it was too late.<p>Amazon ended up waving the nearly $3k in EC2 charges I incurred, thankfully. I'm now a zealous advocate for making sure a person never even HAS AWS credentials. Instead, make a new user without a password for each use case, and manually select the privileges that account has.<p>If you have a password to AWS, you shouldn't have credentials.