Root user versus non-root user
The email address and passwords that are used to create an AWS account are called the root user. This user has the highest privileges. It is highly recommended and also best practice to log in with the root user and then create appropriate IAM users for day-to-day activities (that is, for database administrator, system administrator) and so on. The root user can log in to the AWS account using the following URL: https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home.
Provide a valid username and password created in earlier steps (that is, when creating a new AWS account).
If you are not able to memorize the preceding URL, go to https://aws.amazon.com and select My Account then AWS Management Console. This will also bring up the same login screen as follows:
Figure 2.18: AWS account
For a non-root user login, individual users are created with the help of the IAM service to perform day-to-day infrastructure activities. To obtain a URL to log in using an IAM user, it is essential...
