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Create an Amazon CloudFront key pair

From my "security credentials", I cannot create more key pairs for my CloudFront setup. I can only see the existing 2 key pairs and my remote. The create link is missing. Do you have a reason for this? How can I create key pairs without using this interface? How can I return a function to create a key pair from this interface?

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It is impossible to have more than two key pairs available for use at any given time, see Data Access Rotation :

[...] you can have two credentials in an active state at any given time so you can rotate them without affecting your application. availability. The AWM Security Credentials page displays the current status of each of the credentials that you can rotate. Possible states:

  • Active - can be used to protect AWS requests.

  • Inactive - cannot be used, but can be returned to the active state.

  • Deleted - can never be used again.

The first sentence is actually a little misleading if it is applied to key pairs in an inactive state, because they can be reactivated.

Once you delete the inactive key, you can create a new one.

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