Users can use the AWS credential profile names to use different AWS credentials at run time than the AWS credentials that they specify when they create an Amazon Kinesis connection with an Amazon Kinesis Streams as a source and target and Amazon Kinesis Firehose as a target.

Create AWS credentials for the users, such as access key ID and secret access key. Users can select an authentication type while creating an Amazon Kinesis connection, such as AWS credential profile. The default authentication type is AWS credential profile.

Generate an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for the users in AWS.