Exercise 4.1 – creating an IAM group

In this exercise, you will create an IAM group for a development team that is going to require full access to Amazon S3:

1. Log in to your AWS account.
2. Click on the IAM link under the Security, Identity, & Compliance category on your AWS Services home page.
3. From the left-hand menu, click Groups.
4. Next, click on the Create New Group button.
5. You will then be presented with a step-by-step wizard. Provide a group name for your new group. For this exercise, type in Developers.
6. Click the Next Step button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
7. You now need to attach a policy. You can create your own customer-managed policies but for the purposes of this exercise, type S3 in the Policy Type filter search box. This will narrow down the available policies that relate to Amazon S3.
8. Tick the checkbox next to the AmazonS3FullAccess policy.
9. Click the Next Step button in the bottom right-hand corner of the...