Creating AWS Keys

Steps

1. IAM Dashboard
2. Add a New User
3. Setting Access Type
4. Setting Permissions
5. Reviewing User Creation
6. Confirmation

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1. Go to IAM User Dashboard

Sign into your AWS account and go to the following page :

https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=us-east-1#/users

2. Click "Add user" Button

3. Enter "User name" and "Access type"

The 'User name' is what will be used to reference a particular user's access in AWS. An important step here is to allow Programmatic access to generate a key-pair that will be used to programmatically access AWS services.

4. Set Permissions

For this guide we will attach a policy directly to our created User.

Enter "EC2Read" to filter out existing, default Policies and check the box next to AmazonEC2ReadOnly

5. Review User Creation

Ensure that your page looks similar to the following image.

6. Confirm User Creation