**To retrieve an SSH public key attached to an IAM user in SSH encoded form**

The following ``get-ssh-public-key`` command retrieves the specified SSH public key from the IAM user 'sofia'. It is presented in SSH encoding. ::

    aws iam get-ssh-public-key --user-name sofia --ssh-public-key-id APKA123456789EXAMPLE --encoding SSH

Output::
  {
      "SSHPublicKey": {
          "UserName": "sofia",
          "SSHPublicKeyId": "APKA123456789EXAMPLE",
          "Fingerprint": "12:34:56:78:90:ab:cd:ef:12:34:56:78:90:ab:cd:ef",
          "SSHPublicKeyBody": "ssh-rsa <<long encoded SSH string>>",
          "Status": "Inactive",
          "UploadDate": "2019-04-18T17:04:49+00:00"
      }
  }

**To retrieve an SSH public key attached to an IAM user in PEM encoded form**

The following ``get-ssh-public-key`` command retrieves the specified SSH public key from the IAM user 'sofia'. It is presented in PEM encoding. ::

    aws iam get-ssh-public-key --user-name sofia --ssh-public-key-id APKA123456789EXAMPLE --encoding PEM
    
Output::
  {
      "SSHPublicKey": {
          "UserName": "sofia",
          "SSHPublicKeyId": "APKA123456789EXAMPLE",
          "Fingerprint": "12:34:56:78:90:ab:cd:ef:12:34:56:78:90:ab:cd:ef",
          "SSHPublicKeyBody": ""-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\n<<long encoded PEM string>>\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"",
          "Status": "Inactive",
          "UploadDate": "2019-04-18T17:04:49+00:00"
      }
  }

For more information about SSH keys in IAM, see `Use SSH Keys and SSH with CodeCommit`_in the *AWS IAM User Guide*

.. _`Use SSH Keys and SSH with CodeCommit`: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_ssh-keys.html#ssh-keys-code-commit