AWS-IAM-Tutorial

Tutorial to create groups of AWS users with different access rights and a id/password authentification method

• Go to the Identity and Access Management page (connect to your AWS account)

Groups

• To create a new group
  • Go to the group page ("group" button on the left)
  • Click on the "create new group" button : you will be able to choose a name and policies.
  • To select policies, don't forget to use the filter field. You can easily see the policies related to "EC2" for example

Users

• To create a new user

  • Go to the user page ("user" button on the left)
  • Name the user(s) you want to create
  • Uncheck the "Generate an access key for each user" option

• You can easily add users in a group from the user page or from the group page

User Authentification

• You can set a password for a user from its "Security Credentials" tab, "manage passwords" button

• User authentification

  • Use the link "IAM users sign-in link" from the home of the IAM service (top of the screen)
  • AWS will ask you a username and a password