Resource: aws_key_pair

Provides an EC2 key pair resource. A key pair is used to control login access to EC2 instances.

Currently this resource requires an existing user-supplied key pair. This key pair's public key will be registered with AWS to allow logging-in to EC2 instances.

When importing an existing key pair the public key material may be in any format supported by AWS. Supported formats (per the AWS documentation) are:

Example Usage

resource "aws_key_pair" "deployer" {
  key_name   = "deployer-key"
  public_key = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQD3F6tyPEFEzV0LX3X8BsXdMsQz1x2cEikKDEY0aIj41qgxMCP/iteneqXSIFZBp5vizPvaoIR3Um9xK7PGoW8giupGn+EPuxIA4cDM4vzOqOkiMPhz5XK0whEjkVzTo4+S0puvDZuwIsdiW9mxhJc7tgBNL0cYlWSYVkz4G/fslNfRPW5mYAM49f4fhtxPb5ok4Q2Lg9dPKVHO/Bgeu5woMc7RY0p1ej6D4CKFE6lymSDJpW0YHX/wqE9+cfEauh7xZcG0q9t2ta6F6fmX0agvpFyZo8aFbXeUBr7osSCJNgvavWbM/06niWrOvYX2xwWdhXmXSrbX8ZbabVohBK41 email@example.com"
}

Argument Reference

This resource supports the following arguments:

Attribute Reference

This resource exports the following attributes in addition to the arguments above:

Import

In Terraform v1.5.0 and later, use an import block to import Key Pairs using the key_name. For example:

import {
  to = aws_key_pair.deployer
  id = "deployer-key"
}

Using terraform import, import Key Pairs using the key_name. For example:

% terraform import aws_key_pair.deployer deployer-key