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Glossary: Endpoint, Application and Email Security

AWS (Amazon Web Services) access key

Also written: AKIA, AWS access key ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

A cloud credential. Its access key ID has a fixed shape (AKIA followed by 16 capital letters and digits), so secrets scanners recognize it, as Gitleaks did in Alex's label script.

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