AWS CLI with IAM

Managing Users and Permissions

We can quickly create IAM groups, IAM users, and policies using CLI. The steps are as follows:

  1. Create IAM Group

First, we will create a new IAM group with CLI:

aws iam create-group --group-name dev

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Note that the group name must be unique within your AWS account.

  1. Create IAM User

Next, we will create a new user and name it dev-1:

aws iam create-user --user-name dev-1

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  1. Add User to Group

The next step is to add the newly created user to the dev group:

aws iam add-user-to-group --user-name dev-1 --group-name dev

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  1. Check Group and User Details

We can check the details of the group and user with the following command:

aws iam get-group --group-name dev

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  1. Create Access Key for User

Next, we will create an Access Key for user dev-1:

aws iam create-access-key --user-name dev-1

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Ensure you store the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key securely.

  1. Finally, if you want to delete the created Access Key, we can do it with the following command:
aws iam delete-access-key --user-name dev-1 --access-key-id *dev-1-Access key*

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Remember to replace dev-1-Access key with the Access key created earlier.