It’s always a good practice to create users, groups, admin account for your daily administration task and apply adequate policy to match every role. In this exercise we will create users, groups and assign policy to groups.
Prerequisite: Having a valid AWS Account (Follow the step in this link to create an AWS Account) How to Sign Up for a new Amazon Web Services Account
Login to the AWS management console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/) with our Root user
Search IAM in the search bar and choose IAM to launch the console

We will create our first IAM user account for administration task
Select users

Click on Add users

Give a username to the new user / Enable console to access / confirm custom password / Click Next

Validate the default permissions options / Click Next

Review your choices and validate / Click Create user

Confirm the creation of the user and download the .csv file for all the details the user will need to sign in to the AWS management console

The user was created successfully, now lets us create admin group and assign administrator policy to the group
Click on User groups / Create group

Give the user group name / select the user / Select the AdministratorAcces policy
Click on Create group

Review the properties of the group

Sign out from Root user and sign in as your newly account created

Sign in with the newly created account
Copy the sign in link contain in the .csv file exported in a browser (https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.signin.aws.amazon.com/console)
Choose IAM user / Enter the Account ID or account alias / Click Next

Enter the Account password / Click Sign In

Confirm you have access to the AWS Management Console with the newly create admin account

Display the IAM dashboard

Leave a Reply