No. You could either set it up with SSH or HTTPS credentials (managed via IAM Console or CLI) or use the AWS CLI's credential helper that managed everything aut

No. You could either set it up with SSH or HTTPS credentials (managed via IAM Console or CLI) or use the AWS CLI's credential helper that managed everything automatically. The credential helper was a little weird to set up the first time I used it, but once I wrote up the instructions it was easy enough. Honestly I've never come across the '12 hours of usage' thing for AWS. But I only use CodeCommit, EC2, S3, SNS, SES, and other low-level services.