Interacting with AWS (VIP User)
Last updated: March 13, 2026
The Pragma managed AWS account is setup with a "VIP User" so that members of your Studio have the ability to run certain read-only AWS CLI commands along with being able to SSH onto your AWS instances or run commands through the Pragma Labs CLI.
📄 [Guide] How to SSH onto your AWS boxes
Setting up AWS VIP credentials
Request your VIP credentials through your Pragma Slack channel
Run
aws configure --profile <studio>-vipreplacing<studio>with your studio name (or specify another profile name that works for you)There will be a prompt for your Access Key Id, Secret Access Key, region name, and output. Pragma generally uses
us-west-2for the region and you can leave the default output format asNone
Run
export AWS_PROFILE=<studio>-vipso that you don't have to qualify each of your AWS commands with the profileRun
aws sts get-caller-identityto see that the CLI is properly set up. If not there will be an error displayed.