aws-rotate-keys

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import json
import argparse
import subprocess
import configparser

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Rotate your AWS access key')
parser.add_argument('user', help='AWS user name to rotate keys for')
parser.add_argument('--credential-path', help='path to the aws credentials file', default=os.path.expanduser('~/.aws/credentials'))

args = parser.parse_args()

if args.user is None:
    parser.error('Expecting user name')

result = subprocess.run(['aws', 'iam', 'create-access-key', '--user-name', args.user], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
if result.returncode != 0:
    parser.error(result.stderr.decode('utf-8').strip('\n'))

credentials = json.loads(result.stdout.decode('utf-8'))['AccessKey']

config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read(args.credential_path)

result = subprocess.run(['aws', 'iam', 'delete-access-key', '--access-key-id', config['default']['aws_access_key_id'], '--user-name', args.user], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
if result.returncode != 0:
    parser.error(result.stderr.decode('utf-8').strip('\n'))

config['default']['aws_access_key_id'] = credentials['AccessKeyId']
config['default']['aws_secret_access_key'] = credentials['SecretAccessKey']

with open(args.credential_path, 'w') as configFile:
    config.write(configFile)

print('Added new access key {}'.format(config['default']['aws_access_key_id']))

This will rotate your AWS IAM Access Keys, updating your ~/.aws/credentials file for you.

This assumes you have one access key, that was previously setup using this script or aws configure.