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ServiceSpecificCredential - AWS Identity and Access Management
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ServiceSpecificCredential

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Contains the details of a service-specific credential.

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CreateDate

The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format, when the service-specific credential were created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: Yes

ServiceName

The name of the service associated with the service-specific credential.

Type: String

Required: Yes

ServicePassword

The generated password for the service-specific credential.

Type: String

Required: Yes

ServiceSpecificCredentialId

The unique identifier for the service-specific credential.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\w]+

Required: Yes

ServiceUserName

The generated user name for the service-specific credential. This value is generated by combining the IAM user's name combined with the ID number of the AWS account, as in jane-at-123456789012, for example. This value cannot be configured by the user.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 17. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Status

The status of the service-specific credential. Active means that the key is valid for API calls, while Inactive means it is not.

Type: String

Valid Values: Active | Inactive

Required: Yes

UserName

The name of the IAM user associated with the service-specific credential.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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