![]() Next, launch Arq and pick “Preferences” from Arq’s menu. It’ll be in your Downloads folder, probably named “rootkey.csv”.Ĭlick the “Show Access Key” link to see both the Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key on screen. (If you’d rather switch to IAM and limit the permissions of the key pair you create, follow the instructions in IAM and Arq instead.)Ĭlick the Create New Access Key button to generate a new key pair:Ĭlick the “Download Key File” to save the key pair on your hard drive. Click “Delete” next to each one to delete it. You’ll see a list of your root access keys. Next, click on the + sign next to “Access Keys”. (If you get a pop-up about IAM, click “Continue to Security Credentials”.) To remove a root access key, go to the Security Credentials page. Your AWS account can have multiple root key pairs, plus multiple IAM key pairs. These are not separate accounts they all give you access to the same data in your account (depending on the key pair’s permissions). Create a new root key pair and use that. ![]() Ignore the email and keep using the key pair you’re using. ![]() Second, they’d rather you use IAM to create a key pair that has specific access to resources, rather than a root key pair that has permission to do everything. First, they want you to store the secret access key yourself, not make it easily viewable through the AWS console. But in April 2014, AWS removed the ability to retrieve your root access keys, for 2 reasons. Originally, you could log into the AWS console and see your root key pairs (access key ID and secret access key) just by clicking on a link. If you’re using Arq to back up your files to AWS, you probably created a root access key over a year ago and used that to configure Arq to back up to S3 or Glacier. If you receive an email from Amazon Web Services with the title “Time to remove or rotate your AWS access keys” it’s because you’ve got root access keys in your account that are more than a year old, and Amazon wants you to remove them.
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