Exercise 4.2 – creating an IAM user

Now that you have created a developers group, you can add your developers to this group. To illustrate this, we will create a new user, John. John is one of our senior developers at Packt and we would like to ensure that he is a member of the developers group, which will give him full access to Amazon S3:

1. In the IAM dashboard, click on Users from the left-hand menu.
2. Click the Add user button.
3. In the User name textbox, type in john (all lowercase).
4. Next, you need to select the type of access you want to grant John. John is a developer and will require both console access and programmatic access. This means that sometimes, John will use the web-based console to configure resources in Amazon S3, and at other times, he may use the CLI. For this exercise, tick both boxes – Programmatic Access and AWS Management Console access.
5. To access the AWS account via the console, you need to create a password for the user....