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Hands-On: Creating an IAM User

Explore how to create and configure an IAM user in AWS with both programmatic and console access. Learn to assign the user to a group, set permissions, and safely store credentials for use with AWS CLI in this hands-on lesson.

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In the last lesson, we created the IAM group called “wordpressadmins.”

Now, let’s create an IAM user to use during this course.

Create an IAM user

We’ve already created a user group in the last lesson, so now it’s time to create a user that we can assign to this user group.

  1. Go to “Users” on the left sidebar to open the user management page.
  2. Click “Add users.”
  3. Enter a username. Let’s use “wordpress” for this course.
  4. Under “Select AWS credential type,”
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