AWS access key ID
ID aws_access_key_id
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Public half of an Amazon Web Services access key pair, sent with every signed API request together with the secret access key. It has 20 characters: the prefix AKIA for a long-term key of an IAM user or the root user, or ASIA for a temporary key issued by AWS STS, then 16 uppercase letters and digits.
- Categories
- Secrets and credentials (passwords, keys, tokens)
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 78/100 · missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- Amazon Comprehend, detect-secrets, Gitleaks, Semgrep, TruffleHog
Regular expression
^(?:AKIA|ASIA)[A-Z2-7]{16}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE | Example key ID from the AWS IAM documentation |
| AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE invalid | Unique ID of an IAM user (prefix AIDA), not an access key |
Sources
- doc: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_identifiers.html#identifiers-prefixes
- doc: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html
- other: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/config/gitleaks.toml
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/aws_access_key_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/secrets/aws_access_key_id.yamlon GitHub