Create and Manage Application Keys

Application keys control access to buckets within specific regions of your Backblaze enterprise web console organization.

Create an Application Key

1. Sign in to your Backblaze organization.
2. In the left navigation menu under Access Control, select Application Keys.
3. Click Create App Key.
4. Enter a key name with fewer than 100 characters that includes only letters, numbers, and dashes (-).
5. Select the region where the application key should be applied.
   The application key's access is limited to this region.
6. Select a specific bucket, or select All in Region.
7. Select the application key’s permissions: Read and Write, Read Only, or Write Only.
8. If you selected a specific bucket and want to allow the API to list all of the bucket names in the region, select List all bucket names.
   This option is required for the B2 Native API b2_list_buckets and the S3-Compatible API S3 List Buckets operations.
9. (Optional) Enter a file name prefix to restrict application key access to files with that prefix.
10. (Optional) Enable Expiration and enter a date when the key expires.
11. Click OK, and copy or download the resulting Application Key and Key ID values.

Delete an Application Key

1. In the left navigation menu under Access Control, select Application Keys.
2. Select the application key that you want to delete.
3. Click Delete App Key.
4. Click Delete.