For security reasons, I recommend you use the root account only for billing! So, the first thing is to create another user with fewer privileges:
Create a user with the following steps:
- Sign into the AWS Management console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/).
- Choose Security, Identity, & Compliance > IAM or search for IAM under Find services.
- In the IAM page, choose Add User.
- For User name, type new user on the set user details pane.
- For Select AWS access Type, select the check boxes next to Programmatic access, AWS Console access. Optionally select Autogenerated password and Require password rest.
- Choose ...