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Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide
Request Authentication
Request Authentication
Topics
• What Is Authentication? (p. 17)
• Your AWS Account (p. 18)
• Your AWS Identifiers (p. 18)
• Viewing Your AWS Identifiers (p. 19)
• HMAC-SHA Signatures (p. 19)
• Query Request Authentication (p. 23)
The topics in this section describe how Amazon SQS authenticates your requests. In this section you
can learn about the basics of authentication, how your AWS account and identifiers are used to support
authentication, and how to create an HMAC-SHA1 signature. This section also covers the request
authentication requirements for Query requests.
What Is Authentication?
Authentication is a process for identifying and verifying who is sending a request. The following diagram
shows a simplified version of an authentication process.
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