How to Create A New IAM Users on AWS Console

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a new IAM users on AWS Management Console and you will also learn to get a new Access ID and Secret Key when you lose your security credentials.

Amazon IAM (Identity and Access Management) manage to control the access of your AWS services and resources, and you can also create and manage users and group for someone who needs access to your AWS console, and setup user permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.

What will you do

1. Create IAM User
2. Setup IAM User permissions
3. Add Tags for IAM User
4. Review the User details
5. Download the User Security Credentials
6. Generate new User Access ID and Secret Key

Requirements

• AWS Account. Create your own AWS Account

To get started, this guide will show you through a step process on how to create a new IAM users on AWS Management Console

Step 1. Creating IAM User

Signed to AWS management console with a user who has IAM permissions or either root account will work just fine, as you are creating your IAM accounts.

1. Go to the IAM console and navigate to Users.
2. Select Add User
3. Create IAM user account with user name juan and choose access type Programmatic access and select Next.

Step 2. Setup IAM User permissions

On the permission tab, choose Attach existing polices directly and then select policy name AmazonS3FullAccess or use the AdministratorAccess policy.

Step 3. Add Tags for IAM User

This is optional, but it is nice to add tags to your IAM User to easily determine which users are used for production and development.

Step 4. Review the User details

Check the details information you provided if everything is fine, then select Create User.

Step 5. Download the User Security Credentials

Download the user security credentials or you can email to the specific user you wanted.

Note: You can create new user credentials at any time.

Step 6. Generate new User Access ID and Secret Key

If you lose your security credentials, you can get another one. To obtain, Navigate to Users and select the users (e.g. John) whom you want to generate another credential under the Security Credentials tab.

Note: For your protection, you should never share your secret keys with anyone.

For AWS security best practices you should enable the Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) from your root account or IAM users.

That’s all.

I hope this tutorial helped you and feel free to comment section below for more suggestions.

Tags: aws, iam, users