How To create IAM user from AWS WebUI ?

Kaushal Soni
4 min readOct 17, 2020

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Hola guys ! 🤗 🤗 🤗

I hope you all are doing fabulous. I am once again here with my new blog. 🥳🥳🥳

This blog is for those who want to learn about how to create a IAM user in AWS.

So, without wasting time let’s move to our topic.👻👻👻

First of all : 🌟🌟🌟

WHAT is AWS IAM ? 👀👀👀

AWS IAM is one of the amazon web service. It stands for AWS Identity and Access Management service. IAM is a web service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to manage users and user permissions in AWS. With IAM, you can centrally manage users, security credentials such as access keys, and permissions that control which AWS resources users can access.

AWS IAM allows us to :

  1. Manage AWS user and their access fields.
  2. Mange AWS user roles and permissions.
  3. Manage featured users and their permission.

Use-Cases

Aws Usecases from AWS site

So, now we clearly got idea about what IAM is. SO, now we move forward and create our IAM user. 👣👣👣

Creation of IAM User �💫💫💫�

⚡️ STEP 1 : To create our IAM user, we first have to login and click on IAM service.

⚡️ Step 2 : Now click on user to go to user menu.

⚡️ Step 3 : Now click on add user to crate new IAM user.

⚡️ Step 4 : Now setup the user as requirement as shown in screenshot.

⚡️ Step 5 : Now we have to setup policies as per the user role. ( Foe example : here we gave POWER USER ACCESS role which include all services except IAM creation and billing access.)

There are various policies are there over policies tab, we can also create our customized role also. Hence we have to select the role as per user.

⚡️ STEP 6 : Add tag and review the policies and user details. Once confirm user will be created.

⚡️ Step 7 : As user created so USER credentials are provided by the aws in last step.

Hense our User Successfully Created as shown in below Screenshot.

Hence, now this blog can help us to successfully create aws IAM user which we can use to access various aws services. 🎯🎯🎯

Thats all guys ! 🥂🥂🥂

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