Using IAM to Grant Access to Users Under Your AWS Account
This topic shows you how to give access to your AWS resources
by creating users under your AWS account. First you'll learn concepts you should understand before you
create groups and users, and then you'll walk through how to perform the necessary
tasks using the AWS Management Console. The first task is to set up an administrators group for
your AWS account. Having an administrators group for your AWS account isn't required, but
we strongly recommend it.
The following figure shows a simple example of an AWS account with three groups. A group is a
collection of users who have similar responsibilities. In this example, one group is for
administrators (it's called Admins). There's also a
Developers group and a Test group. Each group
has multiple users. Each user can be in more than one group, although the figure doesn't
illustrate that. You can't put groups inside other groups. You use policies to grant permissions to groups.
In the procedure that follows, you will perform the following tasks:
Create an Admins group
Create the policy controlling permissions for the group
Create or add the users who will be in the Admins group
Create access keys for users who need them
Create passwords for users who need them
You will grant the Admins group permission to access all your available AWS account
resources. Available resources are
any AWS products you use, or that you are signed up for. Users cannot access your AWS account
information, including the following:
![[Tip]](http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/IAM/latest/GettingStartedGuide/SetUpAdminsGroup.html/images/tip.png) | Tip |
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You should create a user for yourself and add it to your Admins group. Then, after you establish the Admins group and yourself as a
user in the group, all interaction with your AWS account should be at the user level, not at the AWS account level. Limiting the
use of your AWS account credentials will help ensure that when you want to rotate credentials for a user or for the AWS
account, potential impact is limited. For more information about the credentials and the security benefits
of rotating credentials, go to Managing User Keys and Certificates in Using AWS Identity and Access Management. |
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