Creating Users in AWS IAM (Identity Access Management)

 

AWS IAM


Users are known as entities, the purpose of creating users is to give team or the environment access to the services in AWS. We can manage the users with the help of IAM.


  • Click Users under Access management

  • Click on Add Users



  • Add user name, under Set user details.

(U1 is for demonstration purposes)


  • The user will have two ways to provide the access to the U1, 

  • Access Key - Programmatic Access (User will connect using CLI, SDK and other development tools to connect)

  • Password - AWS Management Console Access (users will login using AWS web console)

  • Lets use Password - AWS Management console access.



  • We can Add a user to the Group here or create a group for the user if it doesn't already exist.

  • We can copy permissions from the existing user

  • We can attach existing policies here as well

  • We will just create a user at this time.

  • Click on Next:Tags Button



  • Add tags is optional and it is used to organize, track and control access for the user. It could be the user's email, description or the job title.

  • Click on Next: Review button, to continue



  • The user should Review all the inputted information and Click Create User.



  • User account will be created, You can either download the CSV and share it with the users successfully or Email the CSV file to the user.

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