How to create an access key for an IAM user in AWS

Question

Hi Team,

I have created an IAM user in AWS. I want to create an access key from CLI. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can create a new AWS secret access key and corresponding AWS access key ID for the specified user. The default status for new keys is Active. The following create-access-key command creates an access key (access key ID and secret access key) for the IAM user.

$ aws iam create-access-key --user-name Bob