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

📄 Pragma Labs CLI

Setting up AWS VIP credentials

  1. Request your VIP credentials through your Pragma Slack channel

  2. Install the AWS CLI

  3. Run aws configure --profile <studio>-vip replacing <studio> with your studio name (or specify another profile name that works for you)

    1. There will be a prompt for your Access Key Id, Secret Access Key, region name, and output. Pragma generally uses us-west-2 for the region and you can leave the default output format as None

  4. Run export AWS_PROFILE=<studio>-vip so that you don't have to qualify each of your AWS commands with the profile

  5. Run aws sts get-caller-identity to see that the CLI is properly set up. If not there will be an error displayed.