The sandbox team should have sent you an IAM username, a temporary console password, and maybe access keys. There is no separate “Bedrock login.” You call Bedrock from a SageMaker Studio notebook after you sign into AWS.
Sign-in cheat sheet
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Account ID | 160244694692 |
| Console URL | https://160244694692.signin.aws.amazon.com/console |
| Sign-in type | IAM user (not root, not your email by itself) |
| Username | Letters and numbers only (no dots or dashes), e.g. jsmith |
| Studio profile | kearney-sandbox- plus the same username, e.g. kearney-sandbox-jsmith |
| Region | us-east-1 (N. Virginia) |
Your Kearney email is not your AWS username. Sign in with the IAM username on your credential sheet exactly as written there.
Sign in to AWS
Open the console
Go to the account sign-in page. Pick IAM user if AWS asks.
Log in with the temp password
Enter your IAM username and the temporary password from the sandbox team. AWS will make you pick a new password right away.
Set MFA if asked
Follow the on-screen password rules. If MFA is required, set it up with an authenticator app on your phone.
Check the region
Top right of the console should say US East (N. Virginia) / us-east-1.
Open SageMaker Studio
Find SageMaker
Search for SageMaker in the console, open it, then click Studio in the left menu.
Open your profile
Look for kearney-sandbox-<your-username> (same username you used to sign in) and click Open Studio. First load often takes a minute or two.
Start a notebook
Open JupyterLab or an existing notebook. Use a Python 3 kernel.
Try Bedrock in a notebook
Studio runs under a sandbox role that already has Bedrock access. You do not need another password or API key in the notebook.
Nova, Titan, Llama, Mistral, and Cohere. Claude is blocked in this account on purpose. If you hit access denied on anthropic.claude-*, switch to one of the models above.
Paste this into a cell to sanity-check Nova Lite:
import boto3
client = boto3.client("bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")
response = client.converse(
modelId="amazon.nova-lite-v1:0",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [{"text": "Say hello in one sentence."}]}],
)
print(response["output"]["message"]["content"][0]["text"])
If you get a reply, Bedrock is working. More detail is in the Bedrock guide.
When something breaks
| What you see | Usually means | Try this |
|---|---|---|
| Can't sign in | Wrong username or old temp password | Use the IAM username only; ask sandbox-support for a new temp password |
| No Studio profile | Profile missing or wrong name | Confirm kearney-sandbox-<username> exists with the sandbox team |
| Access denied on Claude | Model not allowed here | Use Nova, Titan, Llama, Mistral, or Cohere |
| Bedrock Playground in the console | We don't use the console UI for prompts | Run Bedrock from Studio with boto3, as above |
Email sandbox-support@kearneyco.com. Send your IAM username, which step you were on, and the error text (a screenshot is fine).