Limited Time Offer! For Less Than the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee, Access All DevOpsSchool Videos on YouTube Unlimitedly. Master DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps Skills! Enroll Now source:- techrepublic.com Performing tasks with root user credentials opens AWS to potentially catastrophic security vulnerabilities. Creating and managing access keys mitigates the risk. istock-1083685790.jpg Image: marchmeena29, Getty Images/iStockphoto Best practices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) dictate that you should not perform basic everyday tasks using the original root user credentials created when you first registered