Creating IAM users, groups, roles, and associated privileges

When you are logged in to the AWS web console, users, groups, and roles can be created by navigating to the IAM service page:

1. To get to the IAM page, click on the Services button on the top-left of the page, then search for and click on the relevant link to the IAM page:

Searching for the IAM service in the Services drop-down menu of the AWS web console

2. The following figure shows the relevant links for users, groups, and roles on the IAM dashboard. Click on Users to continue:

The relevant links on the IAM dashboard

3. To create an IAM user, click on the Add user button at the top-left of the page:

The Add user button on the Users dashboard

You will then be presented with a page that requests a User name and the type of access to provide to the new user. One of the two types of access that you can choose is Programmatic...