Creating IAM User

Part ɪ: Building Serverless Api│Story 02: Create IAM User

IAM ➾ AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) : In simple terms, IAM allows us to create user credentials (id/password) that we can provide to someone ( or some application/service) who we would like to have access to our AWS Account with full admin or some limited access.

ℹ️ What is IAM

ℹ️ What is ARN

We would like to manage our AWS account using AWS CLI from our development machine. So let’s create an IAM user for AWS CLI with Admin access.

From your AWS Management console, select IAM from the list of services 👇

Access Key Id and Secret Access Key

Note down the Access Key Id and Secret Access Key of the created IAM user.
📌 🅝🅞🅣🅔 1: IAM Access Key Id and Secret Access Key

Next we would install and configure AWS CLI on your development machine.

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