You can create a rotated secret for an AWS user before you get started, make sure you have created an AWS Target that includes the AWS region, as well as credentials for a user authorized to change the service account credentials.

Create an AWS Rotated Secret from the CLI

Let’s create an AWS rotated secret using the Akeyless CLI. If you’d prefer, see how to do this from the Akeyless Gateway UI instead.

The CLI command to create an AWS rotated secret is:

akeyless create-rotated-secret --name <secret name> \
--api-id <access key id> \
--api-key <access key> \
--target-name <target name to associate> \
--rotator_type <api-key|target>
--auto-rotate <true|false> \
--rotation-interval <1-365> \
--rotation_hour <hour in UTC>

where:

name: A unique name for the rotated secret. The name can include the path to the virtual folder in which you want to create the new secret, using slash / separators. If the folder does not exist, it will be created together with the secret.
api-id: The ID of the access key ID to rotate.
api-key: The access key to rotate.
target-name: The name of the AWS target with which the rotated secret should be associated.
rotator_type: The credential to be rotated, either api-key (default), to rotate the access key ID and access key specified in the rotated secret, or target, to rotate the access key ID and access key for the target credentials.
rotator-creds-type:Determines how to connect to the associated target: self-rotator-creds: Use the credentials defined for the rotated secret to connect.target-rotator-creds: Use the credentials defined for the associated target to connect.
auto-rotate: Optional, only required when the rotated secret should update the credentials. If this value is defined as true, specify the rotation-interval in days, and optionally also the rotation_hour.

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Select Target Rotator Creds if the rotated secret user is not authorized to change their own credentials , and a powerful user like the target user is required to change the credentials on behalf of the rotated secret user.

Options

The full list of options for this command is:

-n, --name                                 *Secret name
  -r, --target-name                          *The target name to associate
  -u, --gateway-url[=http://localhost:8000]   API Gateway URL (Configuration Management port)
  -m, --metadata                              Metadata about the secret
  -t, --tag                                   List of the tags attached to this secret. To specify multiple tags use argument multiple times: -t Tag1 -t Tag2
  -k, --key                                   The name of a key that used to encrypt the secret value (if empty, the account default protectionKey key will be used)
      --auto-rotate                           Whether to automatically rotate every --rotation-interval days, or disable existing automatic rotation
      --rotation-interval                     The number of days to wait between every automatic rotation (1-365),custom rotator interval will be set in minutes
      --rotation-hour                         The Hour of the rotation in UTC
      --rotator-type                         *The rotator type password/target/api-key/custom
      --rotator-creds-type[=use-self-creds]   The credentials to connect with use-self-creds/use-target-creds
      --rotator-custom-cmd                    Custom rotation command (relevant only for ssh target)
      --ssh-username                          ssh username - deprecated, replace by rotated-username
      --ssh-password                          ssh password to rotate - deprecated, replace by rotated-password
      --api-id                                API ID to rotate (relevant only for rotator-type=api-key)
      --api-key                               API key to rotate (relevant only for rotator-type=api-key)
      --rotated-username                      username to be rotated, if selected "use-self-creds" at rotator-creds-type, this username will try to rotate its own password, if "use-target-creds" is selected, target credentials will be use to rotate the rotated-password (relevant only for rotator-type=password)
      --rotated-password                      rotated-username password (relevant only for rotator-type=password)
      --custom-payload                        Secret payload to be sent with rotation request (relevant only for rotator-type=custom)
      --profile                               Use a specific profile from your $HOME/.akeyless/profiles/ folder
      --username                              Optional username for various authentication flows
      --password                              Optional password for various authentication flows
      --uid-token                             The universal identity token, Required only for universal_identity authentication
  -h, --help                                  display help information
      --json[=false]                          Set output format to JSON
      --no-creds-cleanup[=false]              Do not clean local temporary expired creds

Create an AWS Rotated Secret from the Akeyless Gateway UI

Let’s create an AWS rotated secret using the Akeyless Gateway UI. If you’d prefer, see how to do this from the Akeyless CLI instead.

Log in to the Akeyless Gateway, and select Rotated Secret > New > Create new rotated secret.
Give the rotated secret a name, and define where it should be saved.
Define the rest of the rotated secret settings as follows:

Field	Description
Authenticate with the following credentials	Determines how to connect to the associated target: `User Credentials`: Use the credentials defined for the rotated secret to connect. `Target Credentials`: Use the credentials defined for the associated target to connect. Select `Target Credentials` if the rotated secret user is not authorized to change their own password, and a powerful user like the target user is required to change the password on behalf of the rotated secret user.
Rotation interval (in days)	Defines the number of days (1-365) to wait between automatic credentials rotations when Auto Rotate is enabled.
Rotation hour (local time zone)	Defines the time the credentials is rotated when Auto Rotate is enabled.
Auto rotate	Determines if automatic rotation is enabled.
Target	Defines the name of the target to be associated with the secret.
Access Key ID	Defines the access key ID to rotate
Access Key	Defines the access key to rotate
Rotator type	Determines the rotator type: `API Key`: Rotate the Access Key and Access Key ID defined for the rotated secret. `Target rotation`: Rotate the Access Key and Access Key ID defined for the associated target.
Encrypt with the following Key	To enable zero-Knowledge, select a key with a Customer Fragment. For more information about zero-knowledge, see Implement Zero Knowledge.

Create an AWS Rotated Secret from the CLI

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Create an AWS Rotated Secret from the Akeyless Gateway UI

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