How to Open AWS Free Tier and access IAM.

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by BAKRE JAMIU

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Setting Up a Cost-Effective
AWS Environment for a Small Tech Startup

A. Introduce the AWS Management Console.

Step 1: Google Search Amazon Web Service (AWS)

Step 2: Select the with Amazon

Step 3: Once it open the page like the below image, Select Root

Step 4: Once the Signup page is open, Type your email and follow the procedure by verify and fill in important information and input your card details for confirm.

Congratulation, Finally your console page open like this:

B. Describe the navigation process through different services (EC2, S3, IAM).

C. Highlight important settings and information.

There are different ways to access these services (EC2, S3, IAM).

Your AWS console dashboard, click on service on right side of the dashboard.

Go to Service, Select “Security, Identity & Compliance”

Under Security, Identity & Compliance, check for “IAM” and select IAM.

This is how IAM dashboard.

Step on how to access S3.

AWS console Select “Service” Select “Storage”

Under Storage select “S3”

This is how S3 dashboard look like.

How to access “EC2”
Open your AWS console dashboard.

Check for “Compute”

Select EC2

This is EC2 dashboard.

1. Basic IAM Setup

a. Explain the importance and process of creating an IAM user with privileges
Answer: Creating an IAM (Identity and Access Management) user with privileges is crucial for managing access to AWS resources securely.

Security: IAM users allow you to grant specific permissions to individuals or applications, reducing the risk of unauthorized access.

Access Control: IAM users enable you to control who can access your AWS resources and what actions they can perform.
Accountability: IAM users provide a clear audit trail, making it easier to track changes and actions taken by users.

b. Describe the creation of an IAM group for general users and why it’s important.

Open IAM Dashboard

Select User

Under the User, Select “create users”

This is how User dashboard look like:

Type in User name and password you want to use for the User will be type like this and press Next.

Then, next page is “set permission and User group”

Under Set Permission select “attach policies directly” to give the permission to the user.

Choose the permission or type the permission if you know, just like what I did here and click on Next to ”Review and Create”

Under “Review and Create” confirm the details, once it’s okay you can click on create user.

Congratulation, You have successfully created a user.

c. Discuss the assignment of basic policies/permissions (e.g. read-only access).

Read-Only access polices is the kind of policies used for certain user and department assigned to monitor and take note of what is happening.

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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by BAKRE JAMIU