We recommend that you enable multiple MFAĭevices to your AWS account root user and IAM users in your AWS accounts. Your account, adding an additional layer of authentication helps you to better secure yourĪccount. Because your root user can perform sensitive operations in We recommend that you follow the security best practice to enable multi-factorĪuthentication (MFA) for your account. YouĬan also choose Forgot password? on the AWS sign-in page to reset your You can change the email address and password on the Security Credentials page. However, when you delete an access key, it's gone You canĬreate or delete an access key any time. Inactive keys still count toward your limit. When you disable anĪccess key, you can't use it for API calls. You can also assign up to two access keys to the root user. IAM user, which is useful when you want to rotate the access You are limited to two access keys for each You can use the access key for CLI and API calls. You can create root user access keys with the IAM console, AWS CLI, or AWS API.Ī newly created access key has the status of active, which means that The access key and then create a new one. If you don't download it or if you lose it, you can delete When you create access keys, you create the access key ID and secret access key as a set.ĭuring access key creation, AWS gives you one opportunity to view and download the secretĪccess key part of the access key. Anyone who has root userĬredentials for your AWS account has unrestricted access to all the resources in your account, You can also change your root user password. You can create, rotate, disable, or delete access keys (access key IDs and secret access To view the tasks that require you to sign in as the root user, see Tasks that require root user credentials.
Root user credentials are only used to perform a few account and service management tasks. As a best practice, safeguard your root user credentials and don't use them for everyday tasks. We strongly recommend that you do not use the root user for your everyday tasks, even the administrative ones. This identity is called the AWS account root user and is accessed by signing in with the email address and password that you used to create the account. When you first create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, you begin with a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account.
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