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AI-generatedError: Access key expired | IAM Access Key Management
When implementing least‑privilege authentication in AWS, key rotation and expiration are critical. The documented error Access key expired appears when an IAM user signs a request with a key that has been marked Expired in the IAM console. According to AWS documentation, an Expired key remains listed as active until the user explicitly revokes or deletes it.