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[ aws . payment-cryptography ]

create-alias

Description

Creates an alias , or a friendly name, for an Amazon Web Services Payment Cryptography key. You can use an alias to identify a key in the console and when you call cryptographic operations such as EncryptData or DecryptData .

You can associate the alias with any key in the same Amazon Web Services Region. Each alias is associated with only one key at a time, but a key can have multiple aliases. You can't create an alias without a key. The alias must be unique in the account and Amazon Web Services Region, but you can create another alias with the same name in a different Amazon Web Services Region.

To change the key that's associated with the alias, call UpdateAlias . To delete the alias, call DeleteAlias . These operations don't affect the underlying key. To get the alias that you created, call ListAliases .

Cross-account use : This operation can't be used across different Amazon Web Services accounts.

Related operations:

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  create-alias
--alias-name <value>
[--key-arn <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

--alias-name (string)

A friendly name that you can use to refer to a key. An alias must begin with alias/ followed by a name, for example alias/ExampleAlias . It can contain only alphanumeric characters, forward slashes (/), underscores (_), and dashes (-).

Warning

Don't include personal, confidential or sensitive information in this field. This field may be displayed in plaintext in CloudTrail logs and other output.

--key-arn (string)

The KeyARN of the key to associate with the alias.

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To create an alias for a key

The following create-alias example creates an alias for a key.

aws payment-cryptography create-alias \
    --alias-name alias/sampleAlias1 \
    --key-arn arn:aws:payment-cryptography:us-east-2:123456789012:key/kwapwa6qaifllw2h

Output:

{
    "Alias": {
        "AliasName": "alias/sampleAlias1",
        "KeyArn": "arn:aws:payment-cryptography:us-west-2:123456789012:key/kwapwa6qaifllw2h"
    }
}

For more information, see About aliases in the AWS Payment Cryptography User Guide.

Output

Alias -> (structure)

The alias for the key.

AliasName -> (string)

A friendly name that you can use to refer to a key. The value must begin with alias/ .

Warning

Do not include confidential or sensitive information in this field. This field may be displayed in plaintext in CloudTrail logs and other output.

KeyArn -> (string)

The KeyARN of the key associated with the alias.