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The Most Viewed AWS Security Blog Posts in 2016
September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2016. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your blog reading or even read a post again that you […]
What to Do If You Inadvertently Expose an AWS Access Key
Keeping your AWS keys secure is one of the most important things you can do. This week Will Kruse, Security Engineer on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, explains the steps to safeguard your account in the event you inadvertently expose your AWS access key. Your AWS credentials (access key ID and secret access […]
Important Change to How You Manage Your AWS Account’s Access Keys
As part of our ongoing efforts to help keep your resources secure, on April 21, 2014, AWS removed the ability to retrieve existing secret access keys for your AWS (root) account. See the updated blog post Where’s My Secret Access Key? for more information about access keys and secret access keys. -Kai
Coming Soon! An Important Change to How You Manage Your AWS Account’s Access Keys
As part of our ongoing efforts to help keep your resources secure, on April 21, 2014, AWS removed the ability to retrieve existing secret access keys for your AWS (root) account. See the updated blog post Where’s My Secret Access Key? for more information about access keys and secret access keys. -Kai
Where’s My Secret Access Key?
March 12, 2019: You can now find and update your access keys from a single, central location in the AWS Management Console. Learn how in this post. In this blog post, I’ll discuss what you should do in case you’ve lost your secret access key or need a new one. This post assumes that you are […]