Securing Your AWS Environment: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Policies, Users, and Access Keys

Policy —Giving access to EC2 and EC2 Instances connect to a specific region.

Follow the given steps below to create a policy and add that policy to the user:

1. Search for IAM

2. To the left, you can see the dashboard, and choose policies.

3. In service, choose EC2

4. In Resources, choose specific and add request condition

5. Choose the given, region (us-east-2)

6. Follow the 3rd step, to allow EC2 Instance connect.

7. click next: tags, after adding tags. click Next: Review.

8. Name the policy and Finally create a policy.

Now add this policy to a new user:

1. In the dashboard, click user
2. click add user.
3. name the user, click Provide console access and create an IAM user.

4. Attach the policies directly, search for the policy we created.

5. Click create user, and download the CSV file containing the console link, username, and password.

6. To get the access key and secret key.

7. click security credentials, and click the access key.

8. click the command line interface.

9. click next and add tags, then click Create an access key.

10. Similarly, you can download the CSV containing access and secret keys.

Here are some additional tips for securing your AWS environment:

• Use strong passwords and enable multi-factor authentication for all users.
• Regularly rotate access keys and passwords.
• Monitor your AWS account for suspicious activity.
• Use AWS security services, such as Shield and WAF, to protect your resources from attacks.

By following these tips, you can help to ensure that your AWS environment is secure and that your data is protected.

Securing your AWS environment is essential to protecting your data and applications. By following the steps in this article, you can create policies, users, and access keys that will help you to control access to your resources and prevent unauthorized access.

Happy learning!!!