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by isbvhodnvemrwvn 1637 days ago
Why they used users in the first place I don't know, but for IAM credentials - I've seen people using Terraform to generate the users and access keys, and storing the access keys in the terraform state (you can't access secret keys after they are generated), and the entire state of Terraform is typically stored in something like an S3 bucket.

It's definitely not a great practice, but still it's done.