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Update root user password - Amazon Account Management
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Update root user password

To edit your Amazon Web Services account's root user password, perform the steps in the following procedure.

Amazon Web Services Management Console
To edit your root user password
Note

You must sign in as the Amazon Web Services account root user, which requires no additional IAM permissions. You can't perform these steps as an IAM user or role.

  1. Use your Amazon Web Services account's email address and password to sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console as your Amazon Web Services account root user.

  2. In the upper right corner of the console, choose your account name or number and then choose Account.

  3. On the Account page, next to Account details, choose Actions and then select Update email address and password.

  4. On the Account Details page, next to Password choose Edit.

  5. On the Edit password page, fill out the fields for Current password, New password, and Confirm new password. Then, choose Update password. For additional guidance including best practices for setting root user passwords, see Change the password for the Amazon Web Services account root user in the IAM User Guide.

Amazon CLI & SDKs

This task isn't supported in the Amazon CLI or by an API operation from one of the Amazon SDKs. You can perform this task only by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console.