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AWS - Validate and Verify Credential Setup

To validate that you are correctly authenticated and connected to AWS via the AWS CLI run the following:

aws sts get-caller-identity

which should return your current AWS IAM identity used for communicating with the AWS services.

{
    "UserId": "AIDAZXIHWE25TLP2PF7MC",
    "Account": "668420417211",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::668420417211:user/jimmy.briggs@jimbrig.com"
}

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