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Can you open the web console with just an access key? My impression was you could only use that to act through a CLI tool, at least officially you need to have powers or act as a user with powers to use the web console directly?

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You can add users with console access from the IAM API if you have enough reach.

Not using access keys- although using the cli you could create a user which does have the ability to login to the portal.

Untrue, any valid access key pair set can call “GetSignInToken” and access the aws console.

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