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