Hands-On: Creating An IAM Group

Now, let’s create an IAM group (and an IAM user in the next lesson) to use during this course.

Why create another user?

We might ask ourselves, Why do we need to create another user on AWS? The reason is simple: for security reasons. So far, we’ve done all actions within AWS with the AWS root user. Similar to root on Linux machines, this user is essentially allowed to do anything within our AWS account (including running a lot of stuff that can get expensive quickly).

The best practice is not to use this user for day-to-day operations, but rather to create specialized users with restricted ...