---
title: "Rotate Key"
method: PUT
path: "/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/cmek/{cmekId}"
tags: ["CMEK"]
---

# Rotate Key

`PUT /v4/organizations/{organizationId}/cmek/{cmekId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://cloudapi.cloud.couchbase.com`
- URL: `https://cloudapi.cloud.couchbase.com/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/cmek/{cmekId}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/couchbase/apis/couchbase-capella-management-api/docs/v4/organizations/:organizationId/cmek/:cmekId/put.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Initiates the process to rotate a customer-managed encryption key and update its associated metadata within the system.

In order to access this endpoint, the provided API key must have at least one of the following roles:
- Organization Owner

To learn more, see [Organization, Project, and Database Access Overview](https://docs.couchbase.com/cloud/organizations/organization-projects-overview.html).

## Request body

- RotateCMEKKey
  - `config` union, required
    - AWSConfig
      - `arn` string, required: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that uniquely identifies the AWS KMS key.
    - GCPConfig
      - `resourceName` string, required: The unique identifier for a GCP resource, specifying the project, location, key ring, and the key within Cloud KMS.
    - AzureConfig
      - `keyLocation` string, required: The URL of the Azure key.
      - `region` string, required: The region of the Azure key.

## Response `204`

Successfully submitted request to rotate the encryption key.

## Other responses

- `403`: The client does not have the necessary permissions to access this resource.
- `404`: The requested resource was not found.
- `412`: Returned when there is a mismatch with the Etag version.
- `422`: Request validation error.
- `429`: Returned when the client exceeds the rate limit for the given APIKey.
- `500`: An unexpected error occurred in the server while processing this request.

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