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title: "Setting Up API Keys to Access S3 Buckets"
slug: "setting-up-api-keys-to-access-s3-buckets-2"
tags: ["8.2", "Portal"]
updated: 2025-06-15T12:34:40Z
published: 2025-06-15T12:34:40Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/setting-up-api-keys-to-access-s3-buckets-2"
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# Setting Up API Keys to Access S3 Buckets

Users may be assigned to a default subscription plan or assigned automatically to another plan based on automatic template assignment settings. For details, see Provisioning. If desired, you can subscribe an individual user to a different subscription plan. You can also unsubscribe the user account, which deletes all files stored in the account and terminates the account.

You can create your **Access Key ID** and **Secret Access Key** in the portal.

**To create an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key pair:**

1. Select **Users > Users** in the navigation pane.  

The **Users** page is displayed.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-HLGDL3Q1.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A28%3A36Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A28%3A36Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=5YF8TDpoHuhYMK9fFs40B89bnLFl6YQ0Xev5t3uApDE%3D)
2. Click the user's name.  

The user window is displayed with the user name as the window title.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-BESOQYS1.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A28%3A36Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A28%3A36Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=5YF8TDpoHuhYMK9fFs40B89bnLFl6YQ0Xev5t3uApDE%3D)
3. Select the **API Keys** option.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-N1W2E809.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A28%3A36Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A28%3A36Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=5YF8TDpoHuhYMK9fFs40B89bnLFl6YQ0Xev5t3uApDE%3D)
4. Click **New**.  

The **API KEY CREATED** window is displayed with the Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key.  

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-7JMFOLFP.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A28%3A36Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A28%3A36Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=5YF8TDpoHuhYMK9fFs40B89bnLFl6YQ0Xev5t3uApDE%3D)
5. Click **Copy** to copy the Secret Access Key to the clipboard.
6. Save the **Secret Access Key** to give to the end user.
          **Note**

          

The CTERA Portal does not save the **Secret Access Key**, so if you do not save it you will not be able to pass it to the end user.
7. Click **DONE**.
8. Click **Save**.

You can create up to 100 key pairs.

If you lose the **Secret Access Key** you can select the user and in the **API Keys** option select the row for that key and click **Delete** to remove it. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-N5CST8J1.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A28%3A36Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A28%3A36Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=5YF8TDpoHuhYMK9fFs40B89bnLFl6YQ0Xev5t3uApDE%3D)