AWS is one of the most widely accepted cloud platforms, leveraged by companies around the world. When working within AWS, you can add an IAM (Identity and Access Management) user. This is an entity that you create in AWS that represents the person or application that uses it to interact with AWS. The purpose here is to control what permissions and account access you provide to people within your account.
This guide will walk you through setting up an AWS IAM User for your AWS account and sharing the credentials to Aloa Manage.
You have successfully created the IAM user and uploaded the credentials to Aloa Manage!
It's one thing to know how to setup an AWS IAM user, but that is worthless if you don't know when you should do it. Let's break down the relevance of this question based on two high level categories. We'll walk through an explanation as well as provide a score, 1-10, that shows you how relevant this question is whether you do or don’t have a product.
The first scenario we will walk through will be if you do not have a product yet. Whether it is a website or a mobile app, you are still in the ideation or planning phase and have not yet built anything. Maybe you have started development but just aren’t finished with your first version. Whichever it is, we'll get into why this question is or isn’t relevant and why you should or shouldn't care about it if you do not have a product.
If you don't have a product yet, you really don't need to worry about this. Setting up an IAM user is complicated and you should focus your attention on other tasks as you shouldn't even need an AWS account just yet.
The second category is if you do have a live product. Maybe you just launched your business or maybe it's been live for years and you're continuing to improve its quality and release new features. Regardless of the scenario, if your product is live, this question carries a different weight of relevance.
If you do have a live product then this is a pretty important process to know. Too often people will give admin access to their AWS account. As a business owner, it is important to always retain ownership and control access into your account.
Setting up an AWS IAM user can be difficult to do alone. It is something that can require a lot of time and even more critical thinking. Thankfully, all you need is an AWS account and you're good to go!