How to create AWS IAM user and assigning permission

In this blog, you will learn about how to create AWS IAM user and assigning permissions, ensuring secure access control for your AWS resources. You can follow these steps in order to enhance your cloud security. A user is like giving long term access to an AWS account with some certain permission.

Table of Contents

What is IAM

IAM, or Identity and Access Management, is a service in AWS that helps you control who can access your AWS resources and what actions they can perform. It allows you to manage users, assign them permissions, and ensure secure access to your cloud environment.

Important points regarding IAM

You can create maximum upto 5000 IAM users in a single aws account. If you want to increase you can go to Service quotas (it is a service in AWS which is used to increasing the limits).

Steps to create AWS IAM user and assigning permission

First of all you have to login to AWS Management console. And search for IAM.

Here you have to go to Users section and click on Create user. A user is a person or application who needs access to your AWS resources.

Here are the examples of an IAM user

Individual User: An employee for a business who needs to use the AWS Management Console to control things like EC2 servers and S3 buckets.

Application User: A program or script that needs to use API calls to connect to AWS services. Access keys would be used by this person to get into programs.

Next you have to specify the user details such as user_name and if you want to give AWS management console access you can tick mark.

Now here you tick the “I want to create an IAM user”

After that you can set the custom passwords also or you can autogenerate password. In this case, i am autogenerating the password. And ticking the option where user can create a new password after the first time login.

The next step is to attach the permission. There are three types of permission option

You can add a user to group
You can copy the permission
You can attach the policies directly (Policies is a JSON document where all the permission are defined).

I am giving the “AdministratorAccess” permission to our user. You can choose any permission policies based on your usecase,

After that click on the Next.

Next you have to review all the things that you have done and then click on Create user.

Now you can see your console login details. You can download these details or copy it and save somewhere inside your computer.

Note that these credentials are valid until you explicitly delete the user from your account. It is like giving long term credentials to the IAM user.

Now you have to logout and sign in through as IAM user. Enter your credentials and click on sign in

Next you can create a new password and confirm password change.

Now your successfully login to AWS management console. Here you have to all the administrator level permission to this account because you have given administrator access to the account.

Conclusion

In conclusion, creating an AWS IAM user and assigning permissions is crucial for secure cloud management. Follow these steps to ensure your AWS environment remains protected and efficiently managed.

You can tell your friends or coworkers about this blog if you like it. There are social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram where you can find me.

🔔 Follow Me: LinkedIn| Youtube | Instagram | Twitter

👏 Like for this article and subscribe to our newsletter

📰 View more content on my DataSpoof website