AWS admin user + API access key

Ok let's create an AWS admin user with the AWS IAM console :

We'll give AWS console acces to this ZeFerby guy, so he needs a console password.

And we want him to be able to use SDK-based and third-party tools like CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3, so he'll need programmatic access as well.

Finally this guy is only a temporary user in one of my accounts, so i give him a simple password that will not live long...

Clicking on "Next: Permissions", we arrive at this screen where we click the "Attach existing policies directly" box, and we check the mark on the AdministratorAccess listed policy :

Let's go on with "Next: Tags". I don't use tags here, so I click "Next: Review" :

Here I check the details are what I want and click "Create user"...

Now I download the (ugly) credentials.csv file for reference (it contains the password and the programmatic Access "Key ID" + "Secret Key") before clicking "Close" !

Adding / Removing access methods :

You can edit existing IAM Users to add / remove / edit /renew access methods : console access with password, programmatic access key, etc...

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