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Article by Nick Frichette.

Whoami - Get Principal Name From Keys

Original Research: Spencer Gietzen

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sdb list-domains

As found by Spencer Gietzen, the API call for sdb list-domains will return very similar information to get-caller-identity.

user@host:$ aws sdb list-domains --region us-east-1

An error occurred (AuthorizationFailure) when calling the ListDomains operation: User (arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/example_role/i-00000000000000000) does not have permission to perform (sdb:ListDomains) on resource (arn:aws:sdb:us-east-1:123456789012:domain/). Contact account owner.