public class AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient extends AmazonWebServiceClient implements AWSSecurityTokenService
AWS Security Token Service
The AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) is a web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) users or for users that you authenticate (federated users). This guide provides descriptions of the AWS STS API. For more detailed information about using this service, go to Using Temporary Security Credentials .
NOTE: As an alternative to using the API, you can use one of the AWS SDKs, which consist of libraries and sample code for various programming languages and platforms (Java, Ruby, .NET, iOS, Android, etc.). The SDKs provide a convenient way to create programmatic access to AWS STS. For example, the SDKs take care of cryptographically signing requests, managing errors, and retrying requests automatically. For information about the AWS SDKs, including how to download and install them, see the Tools for Amazon Web Services page.
For information about setting up signatures and authorization through the API, go to Signing AWS API Requests in the AWS General Reference . For general information about the Query API, go to Making Query Requests in Using IAM . For information about using security tokens with other AWS products, go to Using Temporary Security Credentials to Access AWS in Using Temporary Security Credentials .
If you're new to AWS and need additional technical information about a specific AWS product, you can find the product's technical documentation at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ .
Endpoints
For information about AWS STS endpoints, see Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference .
Constructor and Description |
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AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient()
Constructs a new client to invoke service methods on
AWSSecurityTokenService.
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AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentials awsCredentials)
Constructs a new client to invoke service methods on
AWSSecurityTokenService using the specified AWS account credentials.
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AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentials awsCredentials,
ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration)
Constructs a new client to invoke service methods on
AWSSecurityTokenService using the specified AWS account credentials
and client configuration options.
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AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider)
Constructs a new client to invoke service methods on
AWSSecurityTokenService using the specified AWS account credentials provider.
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AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider,
ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration)
Constructs a new client to invoke service methods on
AWSSecurityTokenService using the specified AWS account credentials
provider and client configuration options.
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AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration)
Constructs a new client to invoke service methods on
AWSSecurityTokenService.
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Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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AssumeRoleResult |
assumeRole(AssumeRoleRequest assumeRoleRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials (consisting of an
access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token) that you can
use to access AWS resources that you might not normally have access
to.
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AssumeRoleWithSAMLResult |
assumeRoleWithSAML(AssumeRoleWithSAMLRequest assumeRoleWithSAMLRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials for users who have
been authenticated via a SAML authentication response.
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AssumeRoleWithWebIdentityResult |
assumeRoleWithWebIdentity(AssumeRoleWithWebIdentityRequest assumeRoleWithWebIdentityRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials for users who have
been authenticated in a mobile or web application with a web identity
provider, such as Login with Amazon, Facebook, or Google.
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DecodeAuthorizationMessageResult |
decodeAuthorizationMessage(DecodeAuthorizationMessageRequest decodeAuthorizationMessageRequest)
Decodes additional information about the authorization status of a
request from an encoded message returned in response to an AWS
request.
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ResponseMetadata |
getCachedResponseMetadata(AmazonWebServiceRequest request)
Returns additional metadata for a previously executed successful, request, typically used for
debugging issues where a service isn't acting as expected.
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GetFederationTokenResult |
getFederationToken(GetFederationTokenRequest getFederationTokenRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials (consisting of an
access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token) for a
federated user.
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GetSessionTokenResult |
getSessionToken()
Returns a set of temporary credentials for an AWS account or IAM
user.
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GetSessionTokenResult |
getSessionToken(GetSessionTokenRequest getSessionTokenRequest)
Returns a set of temporary credentials for an AWS account or IAM
user.
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setEndpoint, setRegion, shutdown
public AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient()
All service calls made using this new client object are blocking, and will not return until the service call completes.
DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain
public AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration)
All service calls made using this new client object are blocking, and will not return until the service call completes.
clientConfiguration
- The client configuration options controlling how this
client connects to AWSSecurityTokenService
(ex: proxy settings, retry counts, etc.).DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain
public AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentials awsCredentials)
All service calls made using this new client object are blocking, and will not return until the service call completes.
awsCredentials
- The AWS credentials (access key ID and secret key) to use
when authenticating with AWS services.public AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentials awsCredentials, ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration)
All service calls made using this new client object are blocking, and will not return until the service call completes.
awsCredentials
- The AWS credentials (access key ID and secret key) to use
when authenticating with AWS services.clientConfiguration
- The client configuration options controlling how this
client connects to AWSSecurityTokenService
(ex: proxy settings, retry counts, etc.).public AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider)
All service calls made using this new client object are blocking, and will not return until the service call completes.
awsCredentialsProvider
- The AWS credentials provider which will provide credentials
to authenticate requests with AWS services.public AWSSecurityTokenServiceClient(AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider, ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration)
All service calls made using this new client object are blocking, and will not return until the service call completes.
awsCredentialsProvider
- The AWS credentials provider which will provide credentials
to authenticate requests with AWS services.clientConfiguration
- The client configuration options controlling how this
client connects to AWSSecurityTokenService
(ex: proxy settings, retry counts, etc.).public GetSessionTokenResult getSessionToken(GetSessionTokenRequest getSessionTokenRequest)
Returns a set of temporary credentials for an AWS account or IAM
user. The credentials consist of an access key ID, a secret access
key, and a security token. Typically, you use
GetSessionToken
if you want use MFA to protect
programmatic calls to specific AWS APIs like Amazon EC2
StopInstances
. MFA-enabled IAM users would need to call
GetSessionToken
and submit an MFA code that is associated
with their MFA device. Using the temporary security credentials that
are returned from the call, IAM users can then make programmatic calls
to APIs that require MFA authentication.
The GetSessionToken
action must be called by using the
long-term AWS security credentials of the AWS account or an IAM user.
Credentials that are created by IAM users are valid for the duration
that you specify, between 900 seconds (15 minutes) and 129600 seconds
(36 hours); credentials that are created by using account credentials
have a maximum duration of 3600 seconds (1 hour).
Optionally, you can pass an AWS IAM access policy to this operation.
The temporary security credentials that are returned by the operation
have the permissions that are associated with the entity that is
making the GetSessionToken
call, except for any
permissions explicitly denied by the policy you pass. This gives you a
way to further restrict the permissions for the federated user. These
policies and any applicable resource-based policies are evaluated when
calls to AWS are made using the temporary security credentials.
For more information about using GetSessionToken
to
create temporary credentials, go to
Creating Temporary Credentials to Enable Access for IAM Users
in Using IAM .
getSessionToken
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
getSessionTokenRequest
- Container for the necessary parameters
to execute the GetSessionToken service method on
AWSSecurityTokenService.AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public DecodeAuthorizationMessageResult decodeAuthorizationMessage(DecodeAuthorizationMessageRequest decodeAuthorizationMessageRequest)
Decodes additional information about the authorization status of a request from an encoded message returned in response to an AWS request.
For example, if a user is not authorized to perform an action that he
or she has requested, the request returns a
Client.UnauthorizedOperation
response (an HTTP 403
response). Some AWS actions additionally return an encoded message
that can provide details about this authorization failure.
NOTE: Only certain AWS actions return an encoded authorization message. The documentation for an individual action indicates whether that action returns an encoded message in addition to returning an HTTP code.
The message is encoded because the details of the authorization status
can constitute privileged information that the user who requested the
action should not see. To decode an authorization status message, a
user must be granted permissions via an AWS IAM policy to request the
DecodeAuthorizationMessage
(
sts:DecodeAuthorizationMessage
)
action.
The decoded message includes the following type of information:
decodeAuthorizationMessage
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
decodeAuthorizationMessageRequest
- Container for the necessary
parameters to execute the DecodeAuthorizationMessage service method on
AWSSecurityTokenService.InvalidAuthorizationMessageException
AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public AssumeRoleWithSAMLResult assumeRoleWithSAML(AssumeRoleWithSAMLRequest assumeRoleWithSAMLRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials for users who have been authenticated via a SAML authentication response. This operation provides a mechanism for tying an enterprise identity store or directory to role-based AWS access without user-specific credentials or configuration.
The temporary security credentials returned by this operation consist
of an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token.
Applications can use these temporary security credentials to sign
calls to AWS services. The credentials are valid for the duration that
you specified when calling AssumeRoleWithSAML
, which can
be up to 3600 seconds (1 hour) or until the time specified in the SAML
authentication response's NotOnOrAfter
value, whichever
is shorter.
NOTE:The maximum duration for a session is 1 hour, and the minimum duration is 15 minutes, even if values outside this range are specified.
Optionally, you can pass an AWS IAM access policy to this operation. The temporary security credentials that are returned by the operation have the permissions that are associated with the access policy of the role being assumed, except for any permissions explicitly denied by the policy you pass. This gives you a way to further restrict the permissions for the federated user. These policies and any applicable resource-based policies are evaluated when calls to AWS are made using the temporary security credentials.
Before your application can call AssumeRoleWithSAML
,
you must configure your SAML identity provider (IdP) to issue the
claims required by AWS. Additionally, you must use AWS Identity and
Access Management (AWS IAM) to create a SAML provider entity in your
AWS account that represents your identity provider, and create an AWS
IAM role that specifies this SAML provider in its trust policy.
Calling AssumeRoleWithSAML
does not require the use of
AWS security credentials. The identity of the caller is validated by
using keys in the metadata document that is uploaded for the SAML
provider entity for your identity provider.
For more information, see the following resources:
assumeRoleWithSAML
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
assumeRoleWithSAMLRequest
- Container for the necessary
parameters to execute the AssumeRoleWithSAML service method on
AWSSecurityTokenService.PackedPolicyTooLargeException
IDPRejectedClaimException
MalformedPolicyDocumentException
InvalidIdentityTokenException
ExpiredTokenException
AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public AssumeRoleWithWebIdentityResult assumeRoleWithWebIdentity(AssumeRoleWithWebIdentityRequest assumeRoleWithWebIdentityRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials for users who have
been authenticated in a mobile or web application with a web identity
provider, such as Login with Amazon, Facebook, or Google.
AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
is an API call that does not
require the use of AWS security credentials. Therefore, you can
distribute an application (for example, on mobile devices) that
requests temporary security credentials without including long-term
AWS credentials in the application or by deploying server-based proxy
services that use long-term AWS credentials.
The temporary security credentials consist of an access key ID, a
secret access key, and a security token. Applications can use these
temporary security credentials to sign calls to AWS service APIs. The
credentials are valid for the duration that you specified when calling
AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
, which can be from 900 seconds
(15 minutes) to 3600 seconds (1 hour). By default, the temporary
security credentials are valid for 1 hour.
Optionally, you can pass an AWS IAM access policy to this operation. The temporary security credentials that are returned by the operation have the permissions that are associated with the access policy of the role being assumed, except for any permissions explicitly denied by the policy you pass. This gives you a way to further restrict the permissions for the federated user. These policies and any applicable resource-based policies are evaluated when calls to AWS are made using the temporary security credentials.
Before your application can call
AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
, you must have an identity
token from a supported identity provider and create a role that the
application can assume. The role that your application assumes must
trust the identity provider that is associated with the identity
token. In other words, the identity provider must be specified in the
role's trust policy.
For more information about how to use web identity federation and the
AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
, see the following resources:
assumeRoleWithWebIdentity
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
assumeRoleWithWebIdentityRequest
- Container for the necessary
parameters to execute the AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity service method on
AWSSecurityTokenService.PackedPolicyTooLargeException
IDPRejectedClaimException
MalformedPolicyDocumentException
InvalidIdentityTokenException
ExpiredTokenException
IDPCommunicationErrorException
AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public GetFederationTokenResult getFederationToken(GetFederationTokenRequest getFederationTokenRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials (consisting of an
access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token) for a
federated user. A typical use is in a proxy application that is
getting temporary security credentials on behalf of distributed
applications inside a corporate network. Because you must call the
GetFederationToken
action using the long-term security
credentials of an IAM user, this call is appropriate in contexts where
those credentials can be safely stored, usually in a server-based
application.
Note: Do not use this call in mobile applications or
client-based web applications that directly get temporary security
credentials. For those types of applications, use
AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
.
The GetFederationToken
action must be called by using the
long-term AWS security credentials of the AWS account or an IAM user.
Credentials that are created by IAM users are valid for the specified
duration, between 900 seconds (15 minutes) and 129600 seconds (36
hours); credentials that are created by using account credentials have
a maximum duration of 3600 seconds (1 hour).
Optionally, you can pass an AWS IAM access policy to this operation.
The temporary security credentials that are returned by the operation
have the permissions that are associated with the entity that is
making the GetFederationToken
call, except for any
permissions explicitly denied by the policy you pass. This gives you a
way to further restrict the permissions for the federated user. These
policies and any applicable resource-based policies are evaluated when
calls to AWS are made using the temporary security credentials.
For more information about how permissions work, see
Controlling Permissions in Temporary Credentials in Using
Temporary Security Credentials . For information about using
GetFederationToken
to create temporary security
credentials, see
Creating Temporary Credentials to Enable Access for Federated Users
in Using Temporary Security Credentials .
getFederationToken
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
getFederationTokenRequest
- Container for the necessary
parameters to execute the GetFederationToken service method on
AWSSecurityTokenService.PackedPolicyTooLargeException
MalformedPolicyDocumentException
AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public AssumeRoleResult assumeRole(AssumeRoleRequest assumeRoleRequest)
Returns a set of temporary security credentials (consisting of an
access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token) that you can
use to access AWS resources that you might not normally have access
to. Typically, you use AssumeRole
for cross-account
access or federation.
For cross-account access, imagine that you own multiple accounts and need to access resources in each account. You could create long-term credentials in each account to access those resources. However, managing all those credentials and remembering which one can access which account can be time consuming. Instead, you can create one set of long-term credentials in one account and then use temporary security credentials to access all the other accounts by assuming roles in those accounts. For more information about roles, see Roles in Using IAM .
For federation, you can, for example, grant single sign-on access to
the AWS Management Console. If you already have an identity and
authentication system in your corporate network, you don't have to
recreate user identities in AWS in order to grant those user
identities access to AWS. Instead, after a user has been
authenticated, you call AssumeRole
(and specify the role
with the appropriate permissions) to get temporary security
credentials for that user. With those temporary security credentials,
you construct a sign-in URL that users can use to access the console.
For more information, see
Scenarios for Granting Temporary Access in AWS Security Token
Service .
The temporary security credentials are valid for the duration that
you specified when calling AssumeRole
, which can be from
900 seconds (15 minutes) to 3600 seconds (1 hour). The default is 1
hour.
Optionally, you can pass an AWS IAM access policy to this operation. The temporary security credentials that are returned by the operation have the permissions that are associated with the access policy of the role that is being assumed, except for any permissions explicitly denied by the policy you pass. This gives you a way to further restrict the permissions for the federated user. These policies and any applicable resource-based policies are evaluated when calls to AWS are made using the temporary security credentials.
To assume a role, your AWS account must be trusted by the role. The
trust relationship is defined in the role's trust policy when the IAM
role is created. You must also have a policy that allows you to call
sts:AssumeRole
.
Important: You cannot call AssumeRole
by using
AWS account credentials; access will be denied. You must use IAM user
credentials or temporary security credentials to call
AssumeRole
.
assumeRole
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
assumeRoleRequest
- Container for the necessary parameters to
execute the AssumeRole service method on AWSSecurityTokenService.PackedPolicyTooLargeException
MalformedPolicyDocumentException
AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public GetSessionTokenResult getSessionToken() throws AmazonServiceException, AmazonClientException
Returns a set of temporary credentials for an AWS account or IAM
user. The credentials consist of an access key ID, a secret access
key, and a security token. Typically, you use
GetSessionToken
if you want use MFA to protect
programmatic calls to specific AWS APIs like Amazon EC2
StopInstances
. MFA-enabled IAM users would need to call
GetSessionToken
and submit an MFA code that is associated
with their MFA device. Using the temporary security credentials that
are returned from the call, IAM users can then make programmatic calls
to APIs that require MFA authentication.
The GetSessionToken
action must be called by using the
long-term AWS security credentials of the AWS account or an IAM user.
Credentials that are created by IAM users are valid for the duration
that you specify, between 900 seconds (15 minutes) and 129600 seconds
(36 hours); credentials that are created by using account credentials
have a maximum duration of 3600 seconds (1 hour).
Optionally, you can pass an AWS IAM access policy to this operation.
The temporary security credentials that are returned by the operation
have the permissions that are associated with the entity that is
making the GetSessionToken
call, except for any
permissions explicitly denied by the policy you pass. This gives you a
way to further restrict the permissions for the federated user. These
policies and any applicable resource-based policies are evaluated when
calls to AWS are made using the temporary security credentials.
For more information about using GetSessionToken
to
create temporary credentials, go to
Creating Temporary Credentials to Enable Access for IAM Users
in Using IAM .
getSessionToken
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
AmazonClientException
- If any internal errors are encountered inside the client while
attempting to make the request or handle the response. For example
if a network connection is not available.AmazonServiceException
- If an error response is returned by AWSSecurityTokenService indicating
either a problem with the data in the request, or a server side issue.public ResponseMetadata getCachedResponseMetadata(AmazonWebServiceRequest request)
Response metadata is only cached for a limited period of time, so if you need to access this extra diagnostic information for an executed request, you should use this method to retrieve it as soon as possible after executing the request.
getCachedResponseMetadata
in interface AWSSecurityTokenService
request
- The originally executed requestCopyright © 2013 Amazon Web Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.