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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

You're reading from   Amazon Web Services Bootcamp Develop a scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud environment with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294454
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sunil Gulabani Sunil Gulabani
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Users

IAM User is an entity, which will be accessing AWS resources. The entity can be a person or an application that needs fixed credentials to access AWS resources. The IAM user allows us to generate credentials to access the AWS Management Console or generate programmatic access credentials to access from AWS CLI or AWS SDK. The IAM User can have Groups or Policies attached to get the required AWS resource permissions.

Let's look at different ways to create AWS IAM Users.

AWS Management Console

The AWS Management Console allows us to create and manage the Users.

Create an user

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