“IAM” AWS

In the previous article 🙄😉, we create a root account that can access the AWS Management console. The root account has complete privileges to your AWS account. It is very difficult to restrict the privileges in the root account 😨, therefore, AWS recommends using user, accounts for different persons instead of using a single root account.😌
In that case, the IAM service (identity and access management service) comes to the topic. There a few key components to understand in IAM service,
IAM user — Represents a person or service.
IAM Group- Collection of users.
IAM Role — A trusted entity that can be used for delegation
IAM Policy — A document that defines permissions that can be applied to users, groups, and roles.

🔥Create IAM
To use identity and access management service in AWS, you need to create IAM service using the AWS management console. For that, first, log in to your AWS account and choose services under security, identity & compliance select IAM.
Then you can see an overview of the users’ groups and roles, etc.
First, let’s create a group of admins. for that,
👉groups
👉create new group
👉make a name for admins
👉next step
👉attach a policy for your group (ex- AdministratorAccess for admins)

👉next step
👉create group
Then we can create an IAM user and add it to a group of admins. For that,
👉Users
👉Add user

add settings like that choose your name, choose access type as an AWS management console access and choose a custom password. If you want to create a new password in the next login check that one.

In set permissions add the user as an admin that you created earlier. No need to add tags and crate your IAM user.
This is how you simply add your IAM users or groups to your root AWS account, see you next.✍🏻👻