In previous blog posts we have discussed about basics of IAM and it's identities. In this post, lets do some hands on and create IAM user.
To create your first IAM user follow the below steps.
1. To create IAM user, login to your AWS account with root user and Click on IAM.
2. Click on Users
3. Click on Add User
4. Enter the required details like User Name, Access Type, Password and Click on Next: Permissions.
5. On the next page, click on Create Group as we are going to add this user to a group.
6. Provide a Group Name and Click on Create Group.
7. You will see a Admin group is created. Next step is to create Tags.
8. Once the tag is created, click on Next: Review to review the information provided.
9. Once reviewed, click on Create User.
10. You will then see user is successfully created.
11. You can view all your users under Access Management > Users.
12. You can now login to your AWS account with IAM user in 2 different ways. First you can go to AWS login page and select IAM user instead of root user.
Or, you Copy the URL from IAM dashboard and login directly.
13. Once you're logged in, on the top right corner you can see that you are logged in with IAM user.
That's it. You have now successfully created your first IAM user.
In the next few posts we will see how to create policies and permissions.
Thank you for reading!
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