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DynamoDB Cookbook

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

DynamoDB Cookbook

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
DynamoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating users using AWS IAM


To get started with the identity and access control, the first step is to create users, which we will use for our next recipes.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you need to know how to access the DynamoDB console.

How to do it…

Let's create users using AW SIAM:

  1. Log on to the AWS Console by providing the valid credentials at: https://console.aws.amazon.com.

  2. Navigate to the AWS IAM service from the console dashboard. You will see the following screen:

  3. Click on the Users link from the left-hand side navigation pane. You will be directed to the Users page, where you can see the Create New Users button. Click on this button to create new users.

  4. You will see a screen with some textboxes where you can provide the names of users to be created. Enter the names, and click on the Create button. The screen will also have one checkbox, which should be checked, in order to create the access and secret keys for the newly created users.

  5. The next screen will provide an option for...