# AWS OIDC Authentication with SPIFFE

DevFeed: [AWS OIDC Authentication with SPIFFE](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/aws-oidc-authentication-with-spiffe-15540.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/aws-oidc-authentication-with-spiffe>)

Author: Roy Xu

Published: 2021-08-26T19:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [SPIFFE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spiffe.md>), [SPIRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spire.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Secrets Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/secrets-management.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [automated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automated.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datacenter.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [oidc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oidc.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [secrets-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets-management.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [spiffe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/spiffe.md>), [spire](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/spire.md>), [sqs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqs.md>)

## AI overview

Square describes using SPIFFE and SPIRE's OIDC Discovery Provider to exchange SPIFFE JWTs for AWS credentials, allowing datacenter applications to assume AWS roles through an automated configuration-based process.

## Source excerpt

Easy authentication with automated AWS credentials