'aws-base' is the base cookbook used by another AWS related cookbooks to install the required gem in order to work with AWS. It also provides some useful functions to work with AWS API.
Used to establish default credentials and region. It establishes the passed values in node attributes and they are used by AWS LWRPs.
- region: Amazon region to use
- access_key_id: the access key to use
- secret_access_key: the secret to use