IAM User

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    Michael Bui
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Overview

As best practice, you should only use the root user account to perform select service management tasks. You should use an IAM user to perform other activities inside AWS

Instructions

  1. Enable billing data under Account to allow IAM users access to pages of the Billing and Cost Management console
  2. Under IAM -> Users -> Add a user
  3. Provide username
  4. Select required credentials
  5. Add user to a group named Administrators & apply the AdministratorAccess policy to provide full access to AWS services & resources
  6. Download / save the credentials. This is the only time you can save these credentials.

Verification

Console Login

  1. Using the new console login link enter in your new credentials or aws.amazon.com/console
  2. You can change this accoutnID to something familiar like builab by changing the account alias under IAM -> Account Alias

CLI Login

  1. Download the CLI here
  2. Set up AWS CLI documentation here
  3. Run aws configure
  4. Enter your access key & secret key information that you downloaded earlier