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Uses and access keys - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Security Best Practices for Developers
Uses and access keys
- [Instructor] In order to provide access management to our resources, IAM requires that we create users or roles and assign them to those resources. If you're a developer, AWS provides you with the mechanisms to access services from your code, as well as the command line of your favorite operating system. I'm talking about an access key pair. These key pairs are associated with your IAM user and inherit the exact permissions that the user has. Let's go to the console now and create a user account with full admin rights. Here in our IAM console, we click on users. Then we click on add user. Give it a name. Call it demo user. We'll give it AWS management consult access. We'll choose custom password and type our desired password. We'll click next. And then we have to choose whether to add the user to a group, copy permissions from an existing user or attach existing policies. We'll choose attach, and choose…
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