How to Retrieve Root Access Keys

1.Go to Amazon Web Services console and click on the name of your account (it is located in the top right corner of the console). Then, in the expanded drop-down list, select Security Credentials.

 2.Click the Continue to Security Credentials button.

3. Expand the Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) option. You will see the list of your active and deleted access keys.

Note: You cannot retrieve the existing secret key. You can see the AWS secret access key only once immediately after creating it. So, to get a secret key, you will need to create a new one.

4. Click the Create New Access Key button to generate new access keys

5. Click Show Access Key to have it displayed on the screen. Note, that you can download it to your machine as a file and open it whenever needed. To download it, just click the Download Key File button.

Attention! If you do not write down the key or download the key file to your computer before you press "Close" or "Cancel" you will not be able to retrieve the AWS secret access key in future. Then you'll have to delete the keys which you created and start to create new keys.