Creating Your First IAM Admin User

Step 1. Open https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/, and sign in as the AWS account root user using your AWS account email address and password.

Step 2. In the navigation pane, choose Users and then choose Add user.

Step 3. For User name, type cloudadmin. Select the check box AWS Managed Console access and Programmatic access. And then select Custom password, and then type your new password in the text box. And then click Next:Permissions.

Step 4. On the Set permissions page, Choose Attach existing policies directly, select the check box for AdministratorAccess.

Step 5. Click Next: Tags, and then click Next: Reviews. Step 6. Review the user about to be created. When you are ready to proceed, click Create user.

Step 7. Click Download .csv file which contains Access key ID, Secret access key and Console login link.

Note: AWS Access key ID and Secret access key are required to interact with AWS via API, CLI, SDK , and other development tools.

Step 8. Sign Out and Sign-in to your AWS account using the IAM User you just created which is cloudadmin.

Step 9. From now on, you can create IAM Users or any other AWS services and resources using the IAM User cloudadmin which has AdministratorAccess. Congratulations !