Find an AWS IAM user corresponding to an AWS Access Key

find_iam_user.py

# Find the IAM username belonging to the TARGET_ACCESS_KEY
# Useful for finding IAM user corresponding to a compromised AWS credential

# Requirements:
#
# Environmental variables: 
# 		AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
# python: 
#		boto

import boto.iam

TARGET_ACCESS_KEY = 'TARGET_KEY'

iam = boto.connect_iam()

users = iam.get_all_users('/')['list_users_response']['list_users_result']['users']

def find_key():
	for user in users:
		for key_result in iam.get_all_access_keys(user['user_name'])['list_access_keys_response']['list_access_keys_result']['access_key_metadata']:
			aws_access_key = key_result['access_key_id']
			if aws_access_key == TARGET_ACCESS_KEY:
				print 'Target key belongs to:'
				print 'user : ' + user['user_name']
				return True
	return False

if not find_key():
	print 'Did not find access key (' + TARGET_ACCESS_KEY + ') in ' + str(len(users)) + ' IAM users.'

Nice. Alternatively, here is a way to do this with the aws CLI tools:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws --output text iam list-users | awk '{print $NF}' | xargs -P10 -n1 aws --output text iam list-access-keys --user-name | grep $AWS_ACCESS_KEY

If your personal access key (.aws/credentials) does not have iam premissions, the error will show the key owner's user name, which is nice.

This works perfectly. Thanks @axelabs

For AWS CLI; you can use this one-liner: aws iam get-access-key-last-used --access-key-id $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

Thanks @AnthonyWC for that. it was all I needed 👍