# Authorize Ions to Access Other AWS Services

**URL:** <https://forum.datomic.com/t/authorize-ions-to-access-other-aws-services/493>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/authorize-ions-to-access-other-aws-services/493 "2018-06-27T20:07:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![stu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/stu/32/11_2.png) [@stu](https://forum.datomic.com/u/stu)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/authorize-ions-to-access-other-aws-services/493/1 "2018-06-27T20:07:02Z")

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Several people have asked questions about how to authorize ion code to use other AWS services. We have added a [new section to the docs](https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/operation/access-control.html#authorize-ions) covering this.

tl;dr never put AWS creds in code 🙂