How to activate or deactivate an access key for an IAM user

Question

Hi Team,

I have created an access key in AWS. I want to deactivate an access key for an IAM user from the command line. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

The following update-access-key command deactivates the specified access key (access key ID and secret access key) for the IAM user.

$ aws iam update-access-key --access-key-id AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE --status Inactive --user-name Bob