Create Users and Manage Permissions Using Groups and Policies in IAM

30 minutes
  • 3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

**Note:** There have been UI changes to the IAM dashboard. Please keep this in mind as you are going through this lab.
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Hello, Gurus! In this lab scenario, Alfredo of Alfredo’s Pizza has hired you as a security engineer for his web app that allows customers to order pizzas online. He’s ramped up his development team by hiring four new people. He needs our help with giving this team the proper access permissions. In order to provide access and ensure the proper security measures are in place, you will use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). You will group users and assign permissions for the developer group using policies.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Create a Customer Managed Policy

Create a customer managed policy named my_dev_access.

Create a Group Controlled via a Customer Managed Policy

Create a group and attach the my_dev_access policy to that group.

Assign Users to the Group

Add the four developer users to the group.

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Login Information

Please log in to the lab environment with the credentials provided. Make sure you are using the us-east-1 Region throughout the lab.


Note: There have been UI changes to the IAM dashboard. Please keep this in mind as you are going through this lab.

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