Rotate your IAM keys automatically
Prerequisites
- awscli (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html)
- jq (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y jq / MacOS: brew install jq)
Usage: ./aws-iam-key-rotation.sh <aws-cli-profile> <iam-user-name>
Run as a cronjob:
crontab -e
Important:
Set the SHELL to be /bin/bash
SHELL=/bin/bash
E.g run every day at 00:00
0 0 * * * /path/to/script/aws-iam-key-rotation.sh <aws-cli-profile> <iam-user-name>
if you want to see the logs of scheduled jobs you can add >> /path/to/log/file at the end.
0 0 * * * /path/to/script/aws-iam-key-rotation.sh <aws-cli-profile> <iam-user-name> >> /path/to/log/file