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Amazon Web Services Keys

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Access Keys are long-term credentials for an IAM user or the AWS account root user. Access keys contain two parts: an access key ID (such as AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE) and a secret access key (such as wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY).

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Matched expressions

You must use both the access key ID and secret access key to authenticate requests.

Regex expressions

Description

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\bAKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}\b — Access key ID

Matches a string that begins with AKIA followed by 16 alphanumeric characters in uppercase.

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\b[0-9a-zA-Z/+=]{40}\b — Secret access key

Matches a 40-character long alphanumeric string that begins with a number or an uppercase or lowercase alphabetical character [a-z or A-Z] along with symbols [/, +, =].

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Ignored expressions

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