Configuring IAM for a new account

IAM is the primary service in AWS for managing access to AWS services. IAM is a universal service and is not region-specific. After creating an AWS account, we should do some basic IAM configuration in order to secure our AWS account. IAM provides a checklist for these activities. Though not part of this checklist, we will also provide an account alias and create a billing alarm.

Getting ready

We need a newly created AWS account to complete all the steps in this recipe. Our IAM dashboard should look as follows. Even if you do not have a new account, you can still follow this recipe and verify whether everything has been configured correctly:

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