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Understanding requirements for managing AWS

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Understanding requirements for managing AWS

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In this video, we are going to explore requirements for managing AWS. So what is needed? Well, you need to go to aws.com to configure AWS access. And to do so, you use IAM users, create user, and you give the user a name, select access key, and you attach the admin access policy. Then you don't need anything else. You create the user and note the access key ID as well as the secret access key. Let me show you. So here I am on aws.amazon.com, and I am going to sign in to the console. In order to do so, I will do that as the root user. And let's try to see if we can do this without any issues. So after signing into the AWS website, you go to IAM. And in IAM, you find users. And in there, there is the option to add users. So I'm calling this user Ansible. And as the access type, I am going to use access key. Access key is what you want for utilities like Ansible. And next, I'm selecting the permissions. And I'm going to attach existing policies directly. And the existing policy is…

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