Invalidating Temporary Security Credentials ????

If you Unintentionally?? exposed your long-lived credentials, they can be used to create temporary credentials, which have a limited lifespan. You can also invalidate them to stop working within minutes?. Rotating your credentials will not invalidate any temporary credentials. However, if it's practical for you to delete the IAM user, consider doing so. This could cause downtime?? for applications running in your production environment if they access AWS services using that IAM user.

There are two???approaches to invalidate credentials without deleting the user.

One approach is to a?t?t?a?c?h? ?a?n? ?A?W?S? ?p?o?l?i?c?y? ???? ?t?h?a?t? ?d?e?n?i?e?s? ?a?l?l? ?a?c?c?e?s?s? ?t?o? ?t?e?m?p?o?r?a?r?y? ?s?e?c?u?r?i?t?y? ?c?r?e?d?e?n?t?i?a?l?s? issued before a specified date and time.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Deny",
			"Action": "*",
			"Resource": "*",
			"Condition": {
				"DateLessThan": {
					"aws:TokenIssueTime": "2013-12-15T12:00:00Z"
				}
			}
		}
	]
}        

Another approach is to t?e?m?p?o?r?a?r?i?l?y? ?a?t?t?a?c?h? ?d?e?n?y? ?a?l?l?"??? ?p?o?l?i?c?y? ?t?o? ?t?h?e? ?I?A?M? ?u?s?e?r?, and keep it in place for 36 hours (the maximum lifespan for temporary credentials). This policy can be added as an extra policy to the user, effectively prohibiting all access irrespective of any other permissions granted. Once the 36-hour period elapses, the "deny all" policy can be removed, restoring the user's initial permissions.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Deny",
			"Action": "*",
			"Resource": "*"
		}
	]
}        

Take control of your AWS security by promptly invalidating compromised credentials and ensuring the integrity of your account. Stay vigilant and keep your cloud resources secure! ????