Exercise 4.2 – creating an IAM user
Now that you have created a developers group, you can add your developers to this group. To illustrate this, we will create a new user, John. John is one of our senior developers at Packt and we would like to ensure that he is a member of the developers group, which will give him full access to Amazon S3:
- In the IAM dashboard, click on Users from the left-hand menu.
- Click the Add user button.
- In the User name textbox, type in
john(all lowercase). - Next, you need to select the type of access you want to grant John. John is a developer and will require both console access and programmatic access. This means that sometimes, John will use the web-based console to configure resources in Amazon S3, and at other times, he may use the CLI. For this exercise, tick both boxes – Programmatic Access and AWS Management Console access.
- To access the AWS account via the console, you need to create a password for the user....