Add an Administrator to your Amazon AWS account

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Updated: September 8, 2020

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enable you to control access and permissions to your AWS services and resources. IAM lets you manage permissions for your users and applications use identity federation to manage access to an AWS account, and analyze access to resources and services.

Creating IAM Users (Console)

You can use the AWS Management Console to create IAM users.

Log onto https://aws.amazon.com and sign with your earlier created root account.

AWS Management Console

Click on “My Account” and choose the “AWS Management Console” from the drop-down menu. Once you have signed in with your root user and password type “IAM” in the search bar and select the suggested result.

AWS Services

Click the “customize” button and change the name of IAM users sign-in link accordingly and then click the “users” button on the left-hand pane.

AWS Welcome

Then on the succeeding page click the “Add user” button. And Enter the desired name you will like to use.

AWS Image

Please fill the following required information and follow the instructions.

AWS Images

Check the “Programmatic access” and “AWS Management Console access” boxes. Select the “Custom password” and type in your desired password and uncheck the “Require password reset”. Once all is in place as the above screenshot hit the “Next: Permissions”.

AWS Account Images

Select the “Attach existing policies directly” and check the “Administrator Access” row as shown in the image above. Click review and ensure the details are as desired and hit the “create user” button on the preceding page.

AWS Account Images

AWS Account

After creating the user please “download .csv file” and save it on your local machine or keep it securely in some folder.

Save the “Access key ID” and “Secret access key” in a text file and keep it securely for future reference.

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