IAM users and groups in AWS - Mini Project: Build & Apply

IAM Users and Groups Setup

📖 Scenario: You are managing access for a small team in your company. You need to create IAM users and organize them into groups to control their permissions easily.

🎯 Goal: Create IAM users and groups in AWS. Assign users to groups to manage permissions efficiently.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create three IAM users with exact names: Alice, Bob, and Charlie.

Create two IAM groups named Developers and Admins.

Assign Alice and Bob to the Developers group.

Assign Charlie to the Admins group.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Organizing users into groups helps companies manage access permissions efficiently and securely.

💼 Career

Knowing how to create and manage IAM users and groups is essential for cloud administrators and security engineers.

1

Create IAM users

Create three IAM users named Alice, Bob, and Charlie using AWS CLI commands.

AWS

# Use AWS CLI commands to create IAM users Alice, Bob, and Charlie
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command aws iam create-user --user-name USERNAME for each user.

2

Create IAM groups

Create two IAM groups named Developers and Admins using AWS CLI commands.

AWS

aws iam create-user --user-name Alice
aws iam create-user --user-name Bob
aws iam create-user --user-name Charlie
# Create IAM groups Developers and Admins
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command aws iam create-group --group-name GROUPNAME for each group.

3

Add users to groups

Add users Alice and Bob to the Developers group, and add Charlie to the Admins group using AWS CLI commands.

AWS

aws iam create-user --user-name Alice
aws iam create-user --user-name Bob
aws iam create-user --user-name Charlie
aws iam create-group --group-name Developers
aws iam create-group --group-name Admins
# Add Alice and Bob to Developers group, Charlie to Admins group
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command aws iam add-user-to-group --user-name USERNAME --group-name GROUPNAME for each user-group assignment.

4

Verify IAM users and groups

List the IAM groups and their users to verify that Alice and Bob are in Developers and Charlie is in Admins using AWS CLI commands.

AWS

aws iam create-user --user-name Alice
aws iam create-user --user-name Bob
aws iam create-user --user-name Charlie
aws iam create-group --group-name Developers
aws iam create-group --group-name Admins
aws iam add-user-to-group --user-name Alice --group-name Developers
aws iam add-user-to-group --user-name Bob --group-name Developers
aws iam add-user-to-group --user-name Charlie --group-name Admins
# List users in Developers and Admins groups
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command aws iam get-group --group-name GROUPNAME to list users in a group.