Exercise 4.3 – logging in to your AWS account as an IAM user

In this exercise, we log out of the AWS account as the root user and re-login as the IAM user you just created. If you did not make a note of the special sign-in link, you will need to know what your AWS account ID is. You can easily discover this by clicking on your account name in the top right-hand corner of your web-based management console and noting the account ID:

Figure 4.10 – Drop-down box when clicking on the account name to discover the account ID, which is shown after My Account

Now that you have the account ID (or you can make a note of the sign-in URL previously discussed), we can proceed to log in as the IAM user you created earlier:

1. Sign out of the AWS account (remember, you are currently signed in as the root user).
2. You will be taken to the AWS console home page where you can click the Log back in button or the Sign in to the Console button.
3. Clicking...