IAM Access Key Rotation Calculator

AWS access keys are long-lived credentials that never expire on their own — a key created three years ago authenticates exactly as well today as the day it was issued, unless someone actively rotates or deactivates it. That is precisely why credential rotation is a manual discipline rather than something AWS enforces automatically, and why it is easy for a key to silently age well past when it should have been replaced. IAM Access Key Rotation Calculator takes an access key's creation date and tells you its exact age, the date it should be rotated by, and how many days remain (or how many days overdue it already is).

The default rotation interval shown is 90 days, because that figure is widely cited as a security best practice — it appears, for example, in the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark's guidance on credential rotation. It is not an AWS-enforced limit of any kind. AWS access keys have no built-in expiration and are never force-rotated by the platform; 90 days (or 60, or 180, or whatever your organization's own policy specifies) is purely a self-imposed operational discipline. This tool makes the interval a plain number input rather than hardcoding 90, so you can match whatever rotation cadence your own security policy actually requires.

Enter a key's creation date and the tool reports its age in days, computes the exact date it is due for rotation (creation date plus the interval), and classifies it as fresh (well within the interval), due soon (within 14 days of the interval), or overdue (past the interval) — with the exact days remaining or days overdue shown either way. For checking many keys at once — a realistic need when auditing an account with dozens of IAM users — paste one creation date per line into the batch box and every key is evaluated against the same interval in a single table.

Nothing about your actual AWS account is touched: you supply the creation date(s) yourself (copied from the IAM console's Security Credentials tab or from aws iam list-access-keys output), and every calculation runs locally in your browser against your machine's current date.

• Single-key age/rotation calculator from a creation date.
• Configurable rotation interval (default 90 days, editable) — never hardcoded, since 90 days is a best practice, not an AWS rule.
• Fresh / due soon / overdue status, plus the exact rotate-by date.
• Days remaining or days overdue, shown precisely.
• Batch mode — paste multiple creation dates (one per line) to check many keys at once in a table.
• Explicit "not an AWS-enforced limit" disclosure in the UI, not just the FAQ.
• 100% client-side — no AWS credentials or account access required or possible.

1. Enter the access key's creation date (from the IAM console or CLI).
2. (Optional) change the rotation interval from the 90-day default to match your policy.
3. Read the status — fresh, due soon, or overdue — the rotate-by date, and days remaining/overdue.
4. For multiple keys, paste one creation date per line into the batch box to see them all in a table using the same interval.

Example 1 — fresh key. Created 10 days ago, 90-day interval → fresh, 80 days remaining, rotate by creation date + 90 days.

Example 2 — due soon. Created 80 days ago, 90-day interval → due soon (10 days left, inside the 14-day warning window).

Example 3 — overdue. Created 130 days ago, 90-day interval → overdue by 40 days.

Example 4 — stricter custom policy. A 30-day interval for highly sensitive automation keys instead of the 90-day default.

Example 5 — batch audit. Paste 5 creation dates copied from aws iam list-access-keys output for 5 different users, all checked against the same interval in one table.

• Instant age and rotate-by date from a single creation date.
• Honest about 90 days being a best practice, not an AWS-enforced rule — and fully configurable.
• Batch checking for auditing many keys at once.
• No AWS access required — works from a date you already have.
• Private — runs entirely in your browser.