02_iam_lab

IAM Lab

Note: IAM does not have region selection have only global reach. Step 1: Go and click Services Step 2: Type IAM Step 3: Now you have go IAM user sign in link. This is the link you can send to your users. It is simply your account number. Step 4: You can customize it by giving aliases name for your account no. For eg: click customize and give iamcloud2019. And now you can see the change and publically accessible and you can sign in to account.

Step 5 : The very first thing we are going to do is multifactor authentication or MFA on our root account. You might me thinking what is a root account? Well a root account is just the username is the email address that you first signed up with AWS. And you can do anything. Step 6: You want to create a whole bunch of users and a whole bunch of different groups and put those users into groups and you also want to secure this root account. So what you want to do is enable multi-factor authentication so someone steals your username and password. They will not be able to login without multi-factor authentication so to enable it we just click in Step 7 Click Activate MFA on your root account. Click Manage MFA after that you will be able to see below screen

Step 8: Click Continue to Security Credentials Activate MFA Step 9: 1. Choose the type of MFA device to assign. You can select  Virtual MFA device  continue 2. Set up virtual MFA device page opens 3. Now check the list of compatible MFA from the given links https://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/ 4. For android phone you have Google Authenticator to is available at play store for download . 5. download and install it on your system and scan the bar code. 6. Open the mobile to see the code and type the code to get it authenticated.

Create a individual IAM user