Building Serverless Web Applications

Creating users and groups

Take a look at the following steps to learn how to create a user and associate a group to restrict the user access:

1. Browse to the IAM website at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam:

2. Click on Users in the left-hand side menu.

 

3. Choose Add user as shown in the following screenshot:

4. Type a username. Here, you can add multiple users at once by clicking on the Add another user option.
5. Check the Programmatic access box to enable API access using the CLI and the SDK.
6. Click on Next: Permissions, as shown in the following ...