GetAccessKeyInfo
Returns the account identifier for the specified access key ID.
Access keys consist of two parts: an access key ID (for example,
AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
) and a secret access key (for example,
wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
). For more information about
access keys, see Managing Access Keys for IAM
Users in the IAM User Guide.
When you pass an access key ID to this operation, it returns the ID of the AWS account
to which the keys belong. Access key IDs beginning with AKIA
are long-term
credentials for an IAM user or the AWS account root user. Access key IDs
beginning with ASIA
are temporary credentials that are created using AWS STS
operations. If the account in the response belongs to you, you can sign in as the root user and review your root user access keys. Then, you can pull a credentials
report to learn which IAM user owns the keys. To learn who
requested the temporary credentials for an ASIA
access key, view the AWS STS
events in your CloudTrail logs in the IAM User Guide.
This operation does not indicate the state of the access key. The key might be active, inactive, or deleted. Active keys might not have permissions to perform an operation. Providing a deleted access key might return an error that the key doesn't exist.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- AccessKeyId
-
The identifier of an access key.
This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters that can consist of any upper- or lowercase letter or digit.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 16. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[\w]*
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- Account
-
The number used to identify the AWS account.
Type: String
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of GetAccessKeyInfo.
Sample Request
https://sts.amazonaws.com/
?Version=2011-06-15
&Action=GetAccessKeyInfo
&AccessKeyId=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<GetAccessKeyInfoResponse xmlns="https://sts.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-06-15/">
<GetAccessKeyInfoResult>
<Account>111122223333</Account>
</GetAccessKeyInfoResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>7a62c49f-347e-4fc4-9331-6e8eEXAMPLE</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</GetAccessKeyInfoResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: