Connect your app to AWS API

1. 1

   Create a new user in the Amazon Web Services IAM console without console sign-in access.

   Lovable only needs programmatic access, and creating a dedicated user avoids sharing your main account credentials.

2. 2

   Attach a strict permissions policy to the user that allows only the specific actions and regions your app needs.

   Lovable itself does not restrict what the connection can do, so your Amazon permissions policy is the only safeguard against unwanted changes.

3. 3

   Create an access key for the user, choose Third-party service, and save both the access key ID and secret access key.

   These act as the username and password that allow Lovable to securely authenticate with Amazon on your behalf.

4. 4

   Open Connectors in your Lovable dashboard, select AWS API, and click Connect.

   This opens the setup form to register your Amazon credentials inside Lovable.

5. 5

   Select your default region, enter your access key ID and secret access key, choose your sharing settings, and click Connect.

   Lovable verifies your credentials against Amazon and stores them securely for your workspace.

6. 6

   In your Lovable project chat, ask Lovable to link your project to AWS API and build your requested feature.

   This activates the connection for your project so your app can start reading or managing your cloud resources.

Use AWS API and build a dashboard that lists my EC2 instances with their state, instance type, and launch time in a filterable table.

IAM

Amazon's user management system that controls who can access your cloud account and what specific tools they are allowed to use.

Access Key

A pair of long secret strings (an ID and a secret key) that work like an automated username and password for external software.

Region

The physical geographic area where Amazon's data centers are located, such as US East or Europe.

• Never use root account keys; Lovable blocks them because they give full, unrestricted access to your entire Amazon account.
• Lovable does not automatically block delete or modify actions; whatever permissions you give the user in Amazon can be executed by anyone using the connection.
• Amazon bills your account directly for any resources your app creates or runs, so configure budget alerts in Amazon before connecting.
• Requests larger than 6 megabytes will fail, so upload large files to storage first instead of sending them directly through the connection.