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Users and groups - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
Users and groups
- [Instructor] So now we're going to look at a couple of things that I mentioned in the previous video, users and user groups. So all of these items in here relate to each other directly and indirectly. So you can kind of start at any point and get to the other points. So for users, you should have a root user, that might be who you're logged in as. It's good practice to go ahead and create another user that has the same privileges, but they still won't be a root user from the standpoint of being able to actually delete the entire account. So let's look at creating a user. I'm going to click on Add users. I'm going to give it the username adminuser. And you can get an access key, which will allow you to programmatically log in for things like the API, command line interface, SDKs, and so forth. Or you can do a password login. This will allow the user to log in through the console like we are here. You can customize…
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